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Forward frontal fields: phylogeny and fundamental function
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The largest part of the primate prefrontal cortex has no homolog in other mammals. Accordingly, it probably confers some advantage that other mammals either lack or attain through the function of other structures. Yet, this advantage remains enigmatic. This is not so for other parts of the cortex. For example, certain visual areas encode, represent and store knowledge about objects. By analogy, perhaps the primate prefrontal cortex encodes, represents and stores knowledge about behaviors, including the consequences of doing (or not doing) something in complex and challenging situations. The long list of functions often attributed to the prefrontal cortex could contribute to knowing what to do and what will happen when rare risks arise or outstanding opportunities knock.
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“First, the rodent OFC contains only agranular cortex, which corresponds to only a small region of the primate OFC, posteriorly (Wise, 2008; Passingham and Wise, 2012; Passingham, 2021), and these authors provide evidence that there is no equivalent in rodents of most of the primate OFC.”
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“First, the rodent OFC contains only agranular cortex, which corresponds to only a small region of the primate OFC, posteriorly (Wise, 2008; Passingham and Wise, 2012; Passingham, 2021), and these authors provide evidence that there is no equivalent in rodents of most of the primate OFC.”
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“Although rodents are widely used in behavioral neuroscience, the most considerable part of the primate prefrontal cortex—part of which is implicated in neuropsychiatric disturbances—has no homolog in other mammals (Wise, 2008).”
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“Macaques and rats have the homolog to the human medial prefrontal cortex (Wise, 2008), which was suggested to be especially involved in behavioral adaptation based on memory confidence from our human neurophysiological experiment.”
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“The ROIs modulated by frontal dopamine were selected as DLPFC and ACC, because dopamine neurons mainly project to these 2 areas through the mesocortical pathway (Mark Williams and Goldman-Rakic 1998; Petrides 2005; Wise 2008; Ott and Nieder 2019).”
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“…many future directions of great interest, it seems most worthwhile to investigate the issue of the coding of more abstract aspects of time information, such as in behavioral contexts requiring conceptual categorization (Shima et al., 2007) or strategy formation (Wise, 2008) in the temporal domain.”
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“…regions involved in sensory processing and motor control, but also with subcortical brain areas of the limbic system (Ongür and Price, 2000; Wise, 2008), such as the nucleus accumbens, ventral tegmental area (VTA), lateral habenula (LHb) or the amygdala, the PFC is ideally placed to elicit…”
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“, 2009), and the brain regions essential for them, particularly those in PFC, may represent a point in evolutionary divergence when specialized higher cognitive functions emerged that may operate outside of fundamental sex differences (Wise, 2008).”
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“Some controversy regarding the existence of homology between the prefrontal cortical regions of primates and rodents limits the use of this part of the cortex for studying neuroprotective effects [Wise, 2008].”
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“56 While rodent models have provided important insights, especially for subcortical regions, 57,58 modeling the pathophysiology of psychiatric and developmental disorders — often involving PFC malfunction — is limited due to anatomical and functional differences in PFC organization.”
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“Finally, as the TNa nomenclature is based on human anatomy we also included the rodent nomenclature for the 21 structures as proposed by (Hamani et al., 2011; Swanson, 2018; Wise, 2008).”
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“…connections (Small & Scott, 2009); effects of satiety are found peripherally in the nucleus of the solitary tract in rodents (Rolls & Scott, 2003; Scott & Small, 2009); and rodents do not have the major part of the primate including human orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the granular part (Wise, 2008).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wise, S. P.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wise, Steven P.
- Venue
- Trends in Neurosciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-12
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 599-608
- ISSN
- 0166-2236 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2587508
- OpenAlex
- W2020287268
- Semantic Scholar
- 4570a9834f9b1e0a576a44607a5a935665c65eda
- Cited by
- 478
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 42 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 31 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 1.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Trends in Neurosciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (Z01MH001092)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- prefrontal cortex, phylogeny, primate evolution, cognitive function, behavioral knowledge, object knowledge, risk assessment, decision-making, comparative neuroanatomy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Humans, Phylogeny, Prefrontal Cortex
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