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The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

Passingham, Richard E., Wise, Steven P.·2012·Oxford University Press eBooks

DOI 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199552917.001.0001

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The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. This book presents a new theory about its fundamental function. The book argues that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of modern humans could overcome periodic food shortages. These developments laid the foundation for working out problems in our imagination, which resulted in the insights that allow humans to avoid errors entirely, at least at times. The book details which parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved exclusively in primates, how its connections explain why the prefrontal cortex alone can perform its function, and why other parts of the brain cannot do what the prefrontal cortex does. Based on an analysis of its evolutionary history, the book uses evidence from lesion, imaging, and cell-recording experiments to argue that the primate prefrontal cortex generates goals from a current behavioral context and that it can do so on the basis of single events. As a result, the prefrontal cortex uses the attentive control of behavior to augment an older general-purpose learning system, one that evolved very early in the history of animals. This older system learns slowly and cumulatively over many experiences based on reinforcement. The chapters argue that a new learning system evolved in primates at a particular time and place in their history, that it did so to decrease the errors inherent in the older learning system, and that severe volatility of food resources provided the driving force for these developments.

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Authors: Passingham, R. E., & Wise, S. P.
Venue: Oxford University Press eBooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-07-12
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199552917.001.0001
OpenAlex: W4253401278
Cited by: 379
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 17 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 39 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 4
FWCI: 10.86
Type: book
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Keywords: prefrontal cortex, primate evolution, foraging behavior, error reduction, goal generation, attentional control, reinforcement learning, cognitive control, food shortages, evolutionary neurobiology

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