The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognition
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The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognition.
The ability to generalize behaviour-guiding principles and concepts from experience is key to intelligent, goal-directed behaviour. It allows us to deal efficiently with a complex world and to adapt readily to novel situations. We review evidence that the prefrontal cortex-the cortical area that reaches its greatest elaboration in primates-plays a central part in acquiring and representing this...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1099