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Nature Neuroscience 12, 821 - 822 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0709-821
Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: motivating functional hierarchies
Tobias Egner1
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The author is at the Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, and is in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
e-mail: t-egner@northwestern.edu
Abstract
How different frontal brain regions contribute to goal-directed behavior is not fully understood. A study now suggests a parallel functional architecture in medial and lateral prefrontal cortex for motivating and selecting behavior.
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