ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Pinging the brain to reveal hidden neural states underpinning flexible human cognition
Human cognition is uniquely flexible. We can attend to different aspects of the world and make arbitrary connections between things we see and do, enabling us to perceive, think, and act adaptively. These foundational processes are thought to depend on frontoparietal brain networks, which prioritise relevant sensory information and organise it into temporary, task-specific structures. A key proposal is that flexibility arises from the rapid and transient linking of stimulus and response representations via versatile domain-general cells in these regions. Intriguingly, in this framework, a person’s knowledge of the current task is encoded in the temporary pattern of connections between…
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