Flexibly selecting appropriate actions in response to complex, ever-changing environments
requires both cortical and subcortical regions, which are typically described as participating …

Highlights•A hierarchical control process mediates the performance of goal-directed
actions.•Goal-directed actions can be simple or complex configurations of simpler …

Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: motivating functional hierarchies | Nature Neuroscience
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The present paper builds on the idea that attention is largely in service of our actions. A
framework and model which captures the allocation of attention for learning of goal-directed …

The successful planning and execution of adaptive behaviors in mammals may require long-
range coordination of neural networks throughout cerebral cortex. The neuronal …

Attention networks comprise brain areas whose coordinated activity implements stimulus
selection. This selection is reflected in spatially referenced priority maps across frontal …

Although multisensory integration has been well modeled at the behavioral level, the link
between these behavioral models and the underlying neural circuits is still not clear. This …

The basal ganglia as a whole are broadly responsible for sensorimotor coordination,
including response selection and initiation. However, it has become increasingly clear that …

Considerable behavioral data indicate that operant actions can become habitual, as
demonstrated by insensitivity to changes in the action–outcome contingency and in …

We reported previously that as monkeys used abstract response strategies to choose spatial
goals, 1 population of prefrontal cortex neurons encoded future goals (F cells), whereas a …