Understanding the prefrontal cortex selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations / Richard E. Passingham.
| Author/creator | Passingham, R. E., 1943- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition |
| Publication Info | Oxford, Great Britain ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xxviii, 490 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford psychology series ; 53 Oxford psychology series ; no. 53. ^A13324 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Evolution of the prefrontal cortex in non-human primates -- Medial prefrontal cortex: self-generated actions -- Orbital prefrontal cortex: evaluating resources -- Caudal prefrontal cortex: searching for objects -- Dorsal prefrontal cortex: planning sequences -- Ventral prefrontal cortex: associating objects -- Prefrontal cortex: abstract rules and attentional performance -- Evolution of the prefrontal cortex in the hominins -- Human prefrontal cortex: reasoning, imagination, and planning -- Human prefrontal cortex: language, culture, and social rules. |
| Abstract | "This chapter explains why this book is organized as it is. Each neocortical area has a unique pattern of inputs and outputs. This means that the challenge is to understand the transformation that each of the prefrontal areas performs from input to output. Functional brain imaging allows us to visualize the human brain at work, but it does not have the spatial resolution to identify the mechanisms that support the transformations that the brain performs. It is neurophysiological recordings from cells that tell us how these are achieved. Chapters 3-8 are therefore mainly devoted to studies that have been carried out on the prefrontal cortex of macaque monkeys because the methods are necessarily invasive. Apart from recording, the methods include making selective lesions in an area; it is these that identify the contribution that is unique to that area. The book ends by reviewing the evolution of the human prefrontal cortex; and the final two chapters discuss the ways in which the human prefrontal cortex is specialized in terms of function. In doing so, they attempt to account for the intellectual gap between humans and other primates"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020945296 |
| ISBN | 9780198844570 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0198844573 (paperback) |
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