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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 117, Issue 6, Pages 1161-1168Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1161
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG12995, AG112] Funding Source: Medline
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The anterior or rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC) is frequently recruited during complex cognitive tasks across a wide range of domains, including reasoning, long-term memory retrieval, and working memory. The authors report an event-related functional MRI study, indicating that the RLPFC is specifically involved in the evaluation of internally generated information-or information that cannot be readily perceived from the external environment but has to be inferred or self-generated. The findings are consistent with a hierarchical model of lateral prefrontal organization, with RLPFC contributing only at the highest orders of cognitive transformations. This characterization of RLPFC function may help explain seemingly disparate findings across multiple cognitive domains and could provide a unified account of this region's contribution to human cognition.
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