Evolution of prefrontal cortex

TM Preuss, SP Wise - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) evolved at different times. Agranular parts of the
PFC emerged in early mammals, and rodents, primates, and other modern mammals share …

The what, where and how of delay activity

KK Sreenivasan, M D'Esposito - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Working memory is characterized by neural activity that persists during the retention interval
of delay tasks. Despite the ubiquity of this delay activity across tasks, species and …

A revised perspective on the evolution of the lateral frontal cortex in primates

C Amiez, J Sallet, C Giacometti, C Verstraete… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Detailed neuroscientific data from macaque monkeys have been essential in advancing
understanding of human frontal cortex function, particularly for regions of frontal cortex …

Visual field map clusters in human frontoparietal cortex

WE Mackey, J Winawer, CE Curtis - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The visual neurosciences have made enormous progress in recent decades, in part
because of the ability to drive visual areas by their sensory inputs, allowing researchers to …

Overlooked tertiary sulci serve as a meso-scale link between microstructural and functional properties of human lateral prefrontal cortex

JA Miller, WI Voorhies, DJ Lurie… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Understanding the relationship between neuroanatomy and function in portions of cortex
that perform functions largely specific to humans such as lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is …

Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates

P Cisek - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This article outlines a hypothetical sequence of evolutionary innovations, along the lineage
that produced humans, which extended behavioural control from simple feedback loops to …

[HTML][HTML] Labeling lateral prefrontal sulci using spherical data augmentation and context-aware training

I Lyu, S Bao, L Hao, J Yao, JA Miller, W Voorhies… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
The inference of cortical sulcal labels often focuses on deep (primary and secondary) sulcal
regions, whereas shallow (tertiary) sulcal regions are largely overlooked in the literature due …

Spatiotemporal transformations for gaze control

A Sajad, M Sadeh, JD Crawford - Physiological reports, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sensorimotor transformations require spatiotemporal coordination of signals, that is, through
both time and space. For example, the gaze control system employs signals that are time …

Accurate localization and coactivation profiles of the frontal eye field and inferior frontal junction: an ALE and MACM fMRI meta-analysis

M Bedini, E Olivetti, P Avesani, D Baldauf - Brain Structure and Function, 2023 - Springer
The frontal eye field (FEF) and the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) are prefrontal structures
involved in mediating multiple aspects of goal-driven behavior. Despite being recognized as …

[HTML][HTML] Consistency and variation in the placement of cortical folds: a perspective

N Demirci, F Jafarabadi, X Wang, S Wang, MA Holland - Brain Multiphysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Cortical folds, known as gyri and sulci, are prominent features of the human brain that play a
crucial role in its function. These folds exhibit both consistency and variation within and …