The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function

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作者
Burgess, Paul W.
Dumontheil, Iroise
Gilbert, Sam J.
机构
[1] UCL, Inst Cognit Neurosci, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] UCL, Dept Psychol, London WC1E 6BT, England
[3] MRC Cognit & Brain Sci Unit, Cambridge CB2 7EF, England
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英国惠康基金;
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10.1016/j.tics.2007.05.004
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Rostral prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a large brain region, and is unusually large in humans. Therefore, it seems likely that it might support functions that are central to cognition. However, until recently, almost nothing was known about what these functions might be. The 'gateway hypothesis' places these abilities at the Centre of human mental processing. It maintains that rostral PFC supports mechanisms that enable us to attend, to a novel degree, either to environmental stimuli, or by contrast, to self-generated or maintained representations (i.e. the 'thoughts in our head'). In this way, investigations into the functions of rostral PFC will reveal key new insights into how human and non-human mental abilities differ.
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