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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Higher cognition involves forming new knowledge from prior learning, a process studied in stimulus equivalence (SE).
  • SE research demonstrates that reinforcing specific conditional relations leads to emergent control by new, derived relations.
  • Frontal-subcortical and frontal-parietal networks are known to support reinforced conditional relations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if frontal-subcortical and frontal-parietal networks also support derived conditional relations.
  • To compare brain activation patterns during trained versus derived conditional relations.

Main Methods:

  • Twelve adult subjects underwent matching-to-sample (MTS) training to establish trained conditional relations.
  • Functional neuroimaging (fMRI) was conducted during MTS trials involving trained and derived relations (symmetry, transitivity, equivalence).
  • A sensorimotor control condition (matching identical circles) was included.

Main Results:

  • Conditional responding to both trained and derived relations correlated with activation in targeted frontal-subcortical and frontal-parietal networks.
  • Derived relations showed greater activation in prefrontal regions, caudate, thalamus, and putamen compared to trained relations.
  • Unique activation patterns were observed for each type of derived relation.

Conclusions:

  • Frontal-subcortical and frontal-parietal networks are involved in derived conditional relations, extending their known role.
  • The specific regional brain involvement appears to vary depending on the type of derived conditional relation.
  • Differences in activation may reflect extended training or feedback effects during neuroimaging.