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    "pk": 27869,
    "title": "Dorsal Premotor Cortex and Conditional Rule Resolution: A High-Frequency TMS Investigation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Behavior that is contingent on conditional rules necessitatesan abstraction away from concrete stimulus-response identi-ties in order to form a rule template, but also a subsequenttransformation of representation back into sensorimotor for-mat in order to produce concrete behavior. Evidence suggeststhat dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) is well-positioned to me-diate such an operation. We utilized repetitive transcranialmagnetic stimulation, a non-invasive manner of perturbing thefunctioning of targeted cortical regions, to investigate the roleof dorsal premotor cortex during performance of a Rapid In-structed Task Learning paradigm. The task required partici-pants to form conditional associations between stimuli and re-sponses carrying varying levels of abstraction. Selective inter-ference of response times to stimuli presentation was observedonly when the task necessitated the participants to resolve aconditional response referring to an internally-produced repre-sentation of a rule element with relatively abstracted quality.We conclude that PMd specifically supports conditional rulebehavior through transformation of abstract representations toconcrete response, when the conditional rule necessary to re-solve includes abstract, internally-produced identities.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Prefrontal Cortex"
        },
        {
            "word": "Premotor cortex"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transcranial magnetic stimulation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Stimulus-Response associations"
        },
        {
            "word": "Abstract rule representation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42g5w7w5",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Patrick",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Rice",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Washington (UW)",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrea",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Stocco",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UW",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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