Post Conflict and Security.
Landsat TM and ETM+ data were analyzed to examine forest transitions in Rwanda during conflict and post conflict periods.
We constructed for each individual subject the following statistical contrasts: SS vs. SE (to compare with the first GLM and verify the model); pSS vs. pG; pSE vs. pG; pSS vs. pSE (to evaluate post-error processes); and pSSi vs. pSSni, and pSEi vs. pSEni (to identify activations associated with post-conflict and post-error adjustment in RT, respectively).
Second, thalamic and insular but not ACC activity during error processing correlates with prefrontal post-conflict activity, suggesting distinct neural pathways for non-error and error conflict control in the stop signal task.
The current results suggested that thalamus mediates error-related post-conflict control, in accord with our recent functional connectivity study that described a thalamo-cortical circuit during post-error slowing [46].
Second, thalamic and insular activation during error but not non-error conflicts correlated with post-conflict prefrontal activations.
First, non-error conflict activations of the medial frontal cortex including the ACC correlated with post-conflict prefrontal activations but this was not true of error conflicts.
"That was the big mistake of post-conflict planning.
Thus, the current study extended these previous findings by specifying a link between error conflict thalamic and insular activity and prefrontal activity during post-conflict control.
The correlation between the medial frontal cortex and post-conflict prefrontal activations was not specific as many other brain regions that exhibited activation during non-error conflicts also correlated with post-conflict prefrontal activations.
In contrast, error conflict (SE>G) activity of the thalamus and insula showed strongest correlations to the prefrontal activation during post-conflict control (Table 3b).
