The geometry of domain-general performance monitoring in the human medial frontal cortex

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 376; no. 6593; p. eabm9922
• Main Authors: Fu, Zhongzheng, Beam, Danielle, Chung, Jeffrey M., Reed, Chrystal M., Mamelak, Adam N., Adolphs, Ralph, Rutishauser, Ueli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 06.05.2022
• Subjects: Adaptation; Bayesian analysis; Brain; Clinical trials; Cognitive ability; Cognitive tasks; Cortex (cingulate); Cortex (frontal); Diffusion rate; Drift; Drift rate; Epilepsy; Frontal Lobe - physiology; Generalization; Geometry; Human performance; Humans; Invariants; Mathematical models; Monitoring; Neurons; Neurosurgery; Patients; Population; Population Distribution; Populations; Probability; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Representations; Retrospective Studies; Specialization; Supplementary motor area; Task complexity

Controlling behavior to flexibly achieve desired goals depends on the ability to monitor one’s own performance. It is unknown how performance monitoring can be both flexible, to support different tasks, and specialized, to perform each task well. We recorded single neurons in the human medial fronta...