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Nature Neuroscience 5, 15–16 (1 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/nn781

An auditory domain in primate prefrontal cortex

Lizabeth M. Romanski & Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

Although neuroimaging studies confirm the frontal lobe's involvement in language processes and auditory working memory, the cellular and network basis of these functions is unclear. Physiological studies of the frontal lobe in non-human primates have focused on visual working memory and auditory spatial processing in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), although the candidate PFC areas for non-spatial acoustic processing lie in the ventrolateral PFC (areas 12 and 45), which receives afferents from physiologically and anatomically defined auditory cortex.