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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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- 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
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- FWCI
- 1.53
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- journal article
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- en
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- 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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