Topic: goal flexibility

Flexibility is a key skill to deal with unexpected emergencies. However, successful flexible behaviour can necessitate different types of cognitive and behavioural changes depending on the current task demands. For example, sometimes we might have to flexibly shift our attention (sensory flexibility), alter our actions (motor flexibility), or change our task goals (goal flexibility). So far, it is unclear if flexible alterations of different aspects of cognitive functions rely on a same, shared set of mechanisms (e.g., a general “flexibility network” in the brain) or several domain-specific me