paleocortical

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Executive control: balancing stability and flexibility via the duality of evolutionary neuroanatomical trends.

Bilder RM.SourceDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. rbilder@mednet.ucla.edu
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience.Dialogues Clin Neurosci.2012 Mar;14(1):39-47.
The concept of executive functions has a rich history and remains current despite increased use of other terms, including working memory and cognitive control. Executive functions have sometimes been equated with functions subserved by the frontal cortex, but this adds little clarity, given that we
PMID 22577303

Yeterian EH, Pandya DN, Tomaiuolo F, Petrides M.SourceDepartment of Psychology, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901-8855, USA. ehyeteri@colby.edu
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior.Cortex.2012 Jan;48(1):58-81. Epub 2011 Mar 15.
One dimension of understanding the functions of the prefrontal cortex is knowledge of cortical connectivity. We have surveyed three aspects of prefrontal cortical connections: local projections (within the frontal lobe), the termination patterns of long association (post-Rolandic) projections, and t
PMID 21481342