Abstract:It has long been thought that coordination of briefly maintained information (so-called working memory) and higher social cognition (mentalizing) rely on mutually exclusive brain mechanisms. However, here we show that slow rhythmical brain activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex controls distributed networks associated with working memory as well as mentalizing during cognitively demanding visual and social tasks. Depending on the effort necessary for cognitive operations, the phase of slow frontal oscil… Show more
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