Academic Background Cognitive control is the ability to flexibly adjust behavior according to goals and contexts, and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a crucial role in this process. Previous research suggested that the PFC reads out rules from high-dimensional representations of task variables to guide behavior. However, increasing evidence indic...

Abstract In recent years, researchers have gradually recognized that contextual awareness and goal-directed responses to emotional events are crucial for adaptive functioning. Behavioral and emotional regulation models posit that the lateral prefrontal cortex (lpfc) maintains goal-related representations, thereby facilitating cognitive control. How...