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 …

Look away: the anti-saccade task and the voluntary control of eye movement

DP Munoz, S Everling - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
The anti-saccade task has emerged as an important task for investigating the flexible control
that we have over behaviour. In this task, participants must suppress the reflexive urge to …

Role of the basal ganglia in the control of purposive saccadic eye movements

O Hikosaka, Y Takikawa… - Physiological reviews, 2000 - journals.physiology.org
In addition to their well-known role in skeletal movements, the basal ganglia control
saccadic eye movements (saccades) by means of their connection to the superior colliculus …

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: comparative cytoarchitectonic analysis in the human and the macaque brain and corticocortical connection patterns

M Petrides, DN Pandya - European Journal of Neuroscience, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The cytoarchitecture of the human and the macaque monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
has been examined in a strictly comparative manner in order to resolve major discrepancies …

Neural correlates of a decision in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the macaque

JN Kim, MN Shadlen - Nature neuroscience, 1999 - nature.com
To make a visual discrimination, the brain must extract relevant information from the retina,
represent appropriate variables in the visual cortex and read out this representation to …

[HTML][HTML] Frontal eye field, where art thou? Anatomy, function, and non-invasive manipulation of frontal regions involved in eye movements and associated cognitive …

M Vernet, R Quentin, L Chanes… - Frontiers in integrative …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The planning, control and execution of eye movements in 3D space relies on a distributed
system of cortical and subcortical brain regions. Within this network, the Eye Fields have …

A computational model of inhibitory control in frontal cortex and basal ganglia.

TV Wiecki, MJ Frank - Psychological review, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Planning and executing volitional actions in the face of conflicting habitual responses is a
critical aspect of human behavior. At the core of the interplay between these 2 control …

Do rats have prefrontal cortex? The Rose-Woolsey-Akert program reconsidered

TM Preuss - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 1995 - direct.mit.edu
Primates are unique among mammals in possessing a region of dorsolateral prefrontal
cortex with a well-developed internal granular layer. This region is commonly implicated in …

The anatomical connections of the macaque monkey orbitofrontal cortex. A review

C Cavada, T Compañy, J Tejedor… - Cerebral …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The orbitofrontal cortex (OfC) is a heterogeneous prefrontal sector selectively connected
with a wide constellation of other prefrontal, limbic, sensory and premotor areas. Among the …

Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: II. Evidence for segregated corticocortical networks linking sensory and limbic areas with the frontal lobe

C Cavada, PS Goldman‐Rakic - Journal of Comparative …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
We have examined the circuitry connecting the posterior parietal cortex with the frontal lobe
of rhesus monkeys. HRP‐WGA and tritiated amino acids were injected into subdivisions 7m …