The Prefrontal Cortex
Published on 1. April 1998
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-852442-7 (ISBN)
Description
The role of the prefrontal cortex is one of the most topical and important areas of research in contemporary neuropsychology. This cortical region appears to be linked with executive processes affecting many diverse areas of cognitive function. Working memory, information processing, behavioural organization, and attention are just some of the processes it affects. This book brings together contributions from some of the world's leading researchers on the prefrontal cortex. In the light of recent theoretical and technical advances, they address the many questions and debates that have arisen about the role and functional organization of this area of the brain. The text should be welcomed by researchers and students in neuro- and cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. This book is intended for researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of cognitive and neuro-psychology and neuroscience, especially those with a particular interest in the prefrontal cortex.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
38 line figures, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852442-7 (9780198524427)
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Persons
Content
Roberts, theories and models of executive function based on neuropsychological studies in humans - introduction; Baddeley and Della Sala, working memory and executive control; Shallice and Burgess, the domain of supervisory processes and temporal organization of behaviour; Damasio, neurobiological and neuropsychological approaches to the study of cognitive and executive function - the somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex; Pandya and Yeterian, comparison of prefrontal architecture and connections; Rolls, the orbitofrontal cortex; Goldman-Rakic, the prefrontal landscape - implications of functional architecture for understanding human mentation and the central executive; Petrides, specialized systems for the processing of mnemonic information within the primate frontal cortex; Robbins, dissociating executive functions of the prefrontal cortex; Passingham, attention to action; Diamond, evidence of the importance of dopamine for prefrontal cortex functions early in life; Weinberger and Berman, prefrontal function in schizophrenia - confounds and controversies; Frith, the role of the prefrontal cortex in self-consciousness - the case of auditory hallucinations; Cohen, Braver, O'Reilly, a computational approach to prefrontal cortex, cognitive control and schizophrenia - recent developments and current challenges.