The role of the frontal cortex in task preparation

M Brass, DY Von Cramon - Cerebral cortex, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… The analysis of cue–target trials contradicts this alternative explanation, since the same frontal
… While the fronto-lateral cortex might be involved in the selection of cue-related task rules, …

Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision variables

J Hirokawa, A Vaughan, P Masset, T Ott, A Kepecs - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
… d, Decision-variable model of choice behaviour in this task integrates variables from reward
context (choice, size … b, Same convention as panel a for cluster 3, corresponding to decision …

Anterior prefrontal cortex contributes to action selection through tracking of recent reward trends

CK Kovach, ND Daw, D Rudrauf, D Tranel… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
… for the most recent five choices of that bandit and an indicator variable that takes the value 1
… Mean change is shown for trials in which the same choice was repeated (stay trials) and in …

Lesion mapping of cognitive control and value-based decision making in the prefrontal cortex

J Gläscher, R Adolphs, H Damasio… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
… (PFC) has helped characterize the regional specificity of various cognitive functions, such …
the expected reward value of a choice (38, 39). Similar conclusions are supported by …

Prefrontal cortex and flexible cognitive control: Rules without symbols

NP Rougier, DC Noelle, TS Braver… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
… with the same relevant dimension, the specific features within that dimension varied, but a
… of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download. …

Cognition without control: When a little frontal lobe goes a long way

SL Thompson-Schill, M Ramscar… - Current directions in …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
lesson of the larynx, we propose that these differences may reflect the costs and benefits of
an immature frontal cortex (… development has been the target of selection and, therefore, that …

The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in decision making: judgment under uncertainty or judgment per se?

LK Fellows, MJ Farah - Cerebral cortex, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… Lesions are projected on the same 7 axial slices of the … as being impaired (erratic choice
score exceeding the 99.9% … PFC and OFC in various aspects of reward processing, only …

Deciding how to decide: ventromedial frontal lobe damage affects information acquisition in multi-attribute decision making

LK Fellows - Brain, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… may affect the quality of their choices. These findings suggest that … was the main dependent
variable. This was summarized … prefrontal ablation produce similar deficits in food choice and …

Rapid instructed task learning: A new window into the human brain's unique capacity for flexible cognitive control

MW Cole, P Laurent, A Stocco - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2013 - Springer
… representations within lateral prefrontal cortex to develop an … it may be that the same neural
mechanisms are involved during … By varying the included rules, the authors were able to …

Voluntary selection of task sets revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging

BU Forstmann, M Brass, I Koch… - Journal of cognitive …, 2006 - direct.mit.edu
… from was varied between a forced condition (no choice) and … The results have shown that
the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) … This activation is very similar to the coordinate found in the …