Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for establishing cognitive sets?

There is evidence from neuroimaging that the prefrontal cortex may be involved in establishing task set activity in advance of presentation of the task itself. To find out whether it plays an essential role, we examined patients with unilateral lesions of the rostral prefrontal cortex. They were fir...

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Main Authors: Rowe, J, Sakai, K, Lund, T, Ramsøy, T, Christensen, MS, Baare, W, Paulson, O, Passingham, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007