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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2013 Jan 17;71:284–297. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.008

Table 1.

Information about the ROIs included in this study.

ROI Abbreviation Size (2×2×2
mm voxels)
Reason to be included References
Putamen PUT 3,939 COVIS: Response learning and selection Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Body and Tail of Caudate CD-bt 1,330 COVIS: Response learning and selection Ashby et al., 1998; Ashby, Paul & Maddox, 2011
Head of the Caudate CD-hd 2,063 COVIS: Rule switching Ashby et al., 1998; Ashby, Paul & Maddox, 2011
Globus Pallidus GP 2,337 COVIS: Response selection and rule switching Ashby et al., 2005; Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Motor Thalamus va/vlTH 2,870 COVIS: Response selection Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Frontal Thalamus mdTH 4,127 COVIS: Rule maintenance in working memory Ashby et al., 2005
Primary Motor M1 29,115 Motor movement control Dum & Strick, 2005
Dorsal Premotor dPM 15,460 SPEED: Motor representations Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Ventral Premotor vPM 4,215 SPEED: Motor representations Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Supplementary Motor SMA 3,752 SPEED: Motor representations Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Posterior ACC pACC 2,143 SPEED: Motor representations Ashby, Ennis & Spiering, 2007
Primary Visual V1 16,378 Visual input to cortex Chalupa & Werner, 2004
Extrastriate Cortex ESC 22,607 COVIS: Visual representations Ashby et al., 1998
Inferotemporal Cortex IT 16,610 COVIS: Visual representations Ashby et al., 1998
Ventrolateral PFC vlPFC 12,510 COVIS: Rule maintenance in working memory Ashby et al., 2005
Dorsolateral PFC dlPFC 21,990 Evidence of rule representations Muhammad, Wallis Miller, 2006; Seger & Cincotta, 2006
Medial ACC mACC 2,485 COVIS: Rule selection Ashby et al., 1998, 2005
Pre SMA pre-SMA 2,218 Possible role in switching between systems Ashby & Crossley, 2010b; Hikosaka & Isoda, 2010
Hippocampus HPC 5,837 COVIS: Rule storage Ashby, Paul & Maddox, 2011