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    Prefrontal neurons exhibit both transient and persistent firing in working memory tasks. Here the authors report that the intrinsic timescale of neuronal firing outside the task is predictive of the temporal dynamics of coding during working memory in three frontoparietal brain areas.

    • D. F. Wasmuht
    • , E. Spaak
    •  & M. G. Stokes

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    Cognitive impairment is a feature of many psychiatric diseases. Here the authors aimed to identify multimodal neuromarkers that can be used to quantify and predict cognitive performance in individuals with schizophrenia using three different features of MRI and three independent cohorts.

    • Jing Sui
    • , Shile Qi
    •  & Vince D. Calhoun

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    The unique contributions of different frontoparietal networks (FPNs) in cognition remains unclear. Here, authors use neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization to identify cognitive tasks that segregate dorsal and ventral FPNs and reveal complex many-to-many mappings between cognitive tasks and FPNs.

    • Romy Lorenz
    • , Ines R. Violante
    •  & Robert Leech

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    Theta- and gamma-frequency oscillatory synchrony correlates with spatial working memory performance. Here the authors report increases in theta-gamma cross-frequency coupling as a compensatory mechism associated with better working memory performance in models of cognitive dysfunction in mice.

    • Makoto Tamura
    • , Timothy J. Spellman
    •  & Joshua A. Gordon

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    Adults adjust their cognitive performance according to the value of the outcome, but it is unclear whether adolescents do too. Here, authors show that adolescents do not adjust their cognitive effort according to value, and that this ability is mediated by connectivity between the striatum and prefrontal cortex.

    • Catherine Insel
    • , Erik K. Kastman
    •  & Leah H. Somerville

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    Though people are easily able to recall items in a category without mentioning a wrong exemplar, the mechanism underlying this ability is unknown. Here, authors use intracranial recordings to show that this ability is likely due to a selective increase in baseline neuronal activity in category-specific regions.

    • Yitzhak Norman
    • , Erin M. Yeagle
    •  & Rafael Malach

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    It is not fully understood how intrusive or unwanted memories are regulated. Here the authors show that hippocampal GABA concentrations, and coupling between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, predict how well subjects can suppress unwanted memories when presented with a reminder.

    • Taylor W. Schmitz
    • , Marta M. Correia
    •  & Michael C. Anderson

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    | Open Access

    Resting-state functional connections have been associated with cognitive abilities but it is unclear how these connections contribute to cognition. Here Ito et al present a new approach, information transfer mapping, showing that task-relevant information can be predicted by estimated activity flow through resting-state networks.

    • Takuya Ito
    • , Kaustubh R. Kulkarni
    •  & Michael W. Cole

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    Frontal eye fields (FEF) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) are coactivated during cognitive tasks, but the precise format of their interaction is not known. Here the authors show that phase coupling between ACC -FEF in theta and beta frequency bands better predicts behavioural performance.

    • Sahand Babapoor-Farrokhran
    • , Martin Vinck
    •  & Stefan Everling

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    The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in changing behavioural strategies. Recording neural ensembles in rats, Powell and Redish find that the requirement for those changes is represented in mPFC before they manifest behaviourally, both in tasks that externally force a change and in tasks with self-determined change.

    • Nathaniel James Powell
    •  & A. David Redish

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    The ability to continually adjust behavioural strategies is a hallmark of human cognition, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here the authors show that an insula-frontostriatal network mediates such flexible cognitive control by adaptively predicting changing control demands.

    • Jiefeng Jiang
    • , Jeffrey Beck
    •  & Tobias Egner

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    As well as substantial changes in mood, geriatric depression is also characterized by executive dysfunction (ED). Morimoto et al.show that some sufferers of geriatric depression do not respond to conventional drugs, and that ED in these patients can be alleviated with computerized cognitive remediation therapy.

    • Sarah Shizuko Morimoto
    • , Bruce E. Wexler
    •  & George S. Alexopoulos

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