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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 105-125Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(01)00063-X
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working memory; executive functions; positron emission tomography; functional magnetic resonance imaging; functional imaging
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This review presents neuroimaging studies which have explored the cerebral substrates of the central executive component of the working memory model proposed by Baddeley and Hitch [working memory (1986); Recent advances in learning and motivation (1974)]. These studies have demonstrated that different executive functions (manipulating and updating of information, dual-task coordination, inhibition and shifting processes) not only recruit various frontal areas, but also depend upon posterior (mainly parietal) regions. Such results are in agreement with the hypothesis that executive functions rely on a distributed cerebral network not restricted to anterior cerebral areas. Moreover, the intervention of similar prefrontal regions in a large number of executive tasks suggests that the central executive functioning must be understood in terms of different interactions between a network of regions rather than in terms of a specific association between one region and one higher-level cognitive process. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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