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Zusatztext The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex offers a rare opportunity for insight into the biological basis of uniquely human characteristics. Something wonderful happens when experienced researchers take both the whole and the details equally seriously. Informationen zum Autor Richard Passingham was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford. He did his Ph.D at the University of London before returning to Oxford in 1970. He was made a University Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was made a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in 1997 and is an emeritus Principal at the Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging in London. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009 and Fellow of the American Psychological Society in 2010. He has recently retired from his role as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, UKSteven Wise received a B.A. in biology from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in biology (neuroscience) from Washington University in St. Louis. After a brief period of postdoctoral study, he had a 30-year career as a neurophysiologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr Wise served as the Chief of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Chief of the Section on Neurophysiology of the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience. His current affiliations are the Olschefskie Institute for Neurobiology of Knowledge, Potomac, Maryland, USA and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Neuroscience, Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neurosciences of Natal. Klappentext The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. Written by two leading brain scientists, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the evolution and functioning of the human brain. Zusammenfassung The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. Written by two leading brain scientists, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the evolution and functioning of the human brain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Evolution of the primate prefrontal cortex 3: Medial prefrontal cortex: choosing actions based on outcomes 4: Orbital prefrontal cortex: choosing objects based on outcomes 5: Caudal prefrontal cortex: searching for goals 6: Dorsal prefrontal cortex: generating goals based on recent events 7: · Ventral prefrontal cortex: generating goals based on visual and auditory contexts 8: · Prefrontal cortex as a whole: generating goals from current contexts and events 9: Human prefrontal cortex: generating goals from instructions and imagination 10: Conclusions ...
