Eunji Jung, Joung-Sook Ahn, Jaehyun Han, Min-Hyuk Kim
Trajectories of Psychopathology According to Continuation or Discontinuation of Child Abuse: A Longitudinal Observational Study
International journal of environmental research and public health
transition actions require effortful attention exercised automatically reflects progression learning full automaticity marks performance expert research changes brain activity novice skilled performance consistent behavioral characterization showing highly practiced skill often requires less brain activation practice moreover decrease brain activity practice pronounced general executive control processes mediated frontal lobe networks consistent human cognitive neuroscience findings animal neurophysiological evidence suggests two elementary learning systems support different stages skill acquisition one system supports rapid focused acquisition new skills relation threats violations expectancies involves gradual process updating configural model environmental context collected dense array electroencephalography participants performed arbitrary associative code learning task predicted frontal lobe activity would decrease whereas posterior cortical activity would increase person gains knowledge required appropriate action predictions confirmed addition found learning resulted unexpected increase activity medial frontal lobe medial frontal negativity mfn although preliminary findings suggest specific mechanisms learning animal neurophysiology studies may prove informative understanding neural basis human learning executive cognitive control