Evaluating Self-Generated Information: Anterior Prefrontal Contributions to Human Cognition

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1161-1168

  Christoff, Kalina ^a   Ream, Justin M ^b   Geddes, Leo P T ^c   Gabrieli, John D E ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0346995347     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1161     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Allport, D. A., Styles, E. A., & Hsieh, S. (1994). Shifting intentional set: Exploring the dynamic control of tasks. In C. Umilta & M. Moscovitch (Eds.), Attention and performance 15: Conscious and nonconscious information processing (pp. 421-452). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Baker, S. C., Rogers, R. D., Owen, A. M., Frith, C. D., Dolan, R. J., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Robbins, T. W. (1996). Neural systems engaged by planning: A PET study of the Tower of London task. Neuropsychologia, 34(6), 515-526.
3. Benson, D. F. (1993). Prefrontal abilities. Behavioural Neurology, 6, 75-81.
4. Braver, T. S., & Bongiolatti, S. R. (2002). The role of frontopolar cortex in subgoal processing during working memory. NeuroImage, 15, 523-536.
5. Burgess, P. W., Quayle, A., & Frith, C. D. (2001). Brain regions involved in prospective memory as determined by positron emission tomography. Neuropsychologia, 39(6), 545-555.
6. Christoff, K., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2000). The frontopolar cortex and human cognition: Evidence for a rostrocaudal hierarchical organization within the human prefrontal cortex. Psychobiology, 28, 168-186.
7. Christoff, K., Prabhakaran, V., Dorfman, J., Zhao, Z., Kroger, J. K., Holyoak, K. J., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex involvement in relational integration during reasoning. NeuroImage, 14, 1136-1149.
8. Christoff, K., Ream, J. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (in press). Cognitive and neural basis of spontaneous thought processes. Cortex.
9. Cummings, J. L. (1993). Frontal-subcortical circuits and human behavior. Archives of Neurology, 50, 873-880.
10. Damasio, A. R. (2000). Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 1049-1056.
11. D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., Zarahn, E., Ballard, D., Shin, R. K., & Lease, J. (1998). Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory. Cognitive Brain Research, 7, 1-13.
12. Duncan, J., Burgess, P., & Emslie, H. (1995). Fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychologia, 33(3), 261-268.
13. Fuster, J. M. (1980). The prefrontal cortex. Anatomy, physiology and neuropsychology of the frontal lobe. New York: Raven Press.
14. Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1987). Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and regulation of behavior by representational memory. In F. Plum & V. B. Mountcastle (Eds.), Handbook of physiology. Section 1, The nervous system: Vol. 5. Higher functions of the brain (pp. 373-417). Bethesda, MD: American Psychological Society.
15. Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1995). Architecture of the prefrontal cortex and the central executive. In J. Grafman, K. H. Holyoak, & F. Boller (Eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Vol. 769. Structure and function of the human prefrontal cortex (pp. 71-83). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
16. Graf, P., & Schacter, D. L. (1985). Implicit and explicit memory for new associations in normal and amnesic subjects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 11, 501-518.
17. Gusnard, D. A., Akbudak, E., Shulman, G. L., & Raichle, M. E. (2001). Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: Relation to a default mode of brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 98, 4259-4264.
18. Halford, G. S. (1984). Can young children integrate premises in transitivity and serial order tasks? Cognitive Psychology, 16(1), 65-93.
19. Ivry, R. B., Spencer, R. M., Zelaznik, H. N., & Diedrichsen, J. (2002). The cerebellum and event timing. In S. Highstein & W. T. Thach (Eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Vol. 978. The cerebellum: Recent developments in cerebellar research (pp. 302-317). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
20. Koechlin, E., Basso, G., Pietrini, P., Panzer, S., & Grafman, J. (1999). The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition. Nature, 399, 148-151.
21. Lane, R. D., Fink, G. R., Chau, P. M., & Dolan, R. J. (1997). Neural activation during selective attention to subjective emotional responses. NeuroReport, 8, 3969-3972.
22. Lepage, M., Ghaffar, O., Nyberg, L., & Tulving, E. (2000). Prefrontal cortex and episodic memory retrieval mode. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 97, 506-511.
23. Luria, A. R. (1966). Higher cortical functions in man. London: Tavistock Publications.
24. Mesulam, M.-M. (1985). Patterns in behavioural neurology. In M.-M. Mesulam (Ed.), Principles of behavioral neurology (pp. 1-70). Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
25. Mesulam, M.-M. (1998). From sensation to cognition. Brain, 121, 1013-1052.
26. Milner, B. (1964). Some effects of frontal lobectomy in man. In J. M. Warren & K. Akert (Eds.), The frontal granular cortex and behavior (pp. 313-334). New York: McGraw-Hill.
27. Nolde, S. F., Johnson, M. K., & Raye, C. L. (1998). The role of prefrontal cortex during tests of episodic memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 399-406.
28. Owen, A. M. (1997). The functional organization of working memory processes within human lateral frontal cortex: The contribution of functional neuroimaging. European Journal of Neuroscience, 9, 1329-1339.
29. Owen, A. M., Doyon, J., Petrides, M., & Evans, A. (1996). Planning and spatial working memory: A positron emission tomography study in humans. European Journal of Neuroscience, 8, 353-364.
30. Petrides, M. (1994). Frontal lobes and working memory: Evidence from the investigations of the effects of cortical excisions in nonhuman primates. In F. Boller & J. Grafman (Eds.), Handbook of neuropsychology: Vol. 4 (pp. 59-82). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
31. Pollmann, S. (2001). Switching between dimensions, locations, and responses: The role of the left frontopolar cortex. NeuroImage, 14, S118-S124.
32. Premack, D. (1983). The codes of man and beasts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 125-167.
33. Rugg, M. D., Fletcher, P. C., Frith, C. D., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Dolan, R. J. (1996). Differential activation of the prefrontal cortex in successful and unsuccessful memory retrieval. Brain, 119, 2073-2083.
34. Rugg, M. D., & Wilding, E. L. (2000). Retrieval processing and episodic memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 4, 108-115.
35. Sakai, K., & Passingham, R. E. (2003). Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 75-81.
36. Semendeferi, K., Armstrong, E., Schleicher, A., Zilles, K., & Van Hoesen, G. W. (2001). Prefrontal cortex in humans and apes: A comparative study of area 10. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 114, 224-241.
37. Semendeferi, K., Damasio, H., Frank, R., & Van Hoesen, G. W. (1997). The evolution of the frontal lobes: A volumetric analysis based on three-dimensional reconstructions of magnetic resonance scans of human and ape brains. Journal of Human Evolution, 32, 375-388.
38. Semendeferi, K., Lu, A., Schenker, N., & Damasio, H. (2002). Humans and great apes share a large frontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 272-276.
39. Shallice, T. (1982). Specific impairments of planning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 298, 199-209.
40. Strange, B. A., Henson, R. N., Friston, K. J., & Dolan, R. J. (2001). Anterior prefrontal cortex mediates rule learning in humans. Cerebral Cortex, 11, 1040-1046.
41. Stuss, D. T., & Benson, D. F. (1986). The frontal lobes. New York: Raven Press.
42. Thompson, R. K. R., & Oden, D. L. (2000). Categorical perception and conceptual judgments by nonhuman primates: The paleological monkey and the analogical ape. Cognitive Science, 24(3), 363-396.
43. Thompson, R. K. R., Oden, D. L., & Boysen, S. T. (1997). Language-naive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) judge relations between relations in a conceptual matching-to-sample task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 31-43.
44. Wagner, A. D., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. (1998). Prefrontal cortex and recognition memory. Functional-MRI evidence for context-dependent retrieval processes. Brain, 121, 1985-2002.
45. Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology. (1999). SPM99 [Computer software]. Retrieved from http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm
46. Wise, S. P., Murray, E. A., & Gerfen, C. R. (1996). The frontal cortex-basal ganglia system in primates. Critical Reviews in Neurobiology, 10(3-4), 317-356.
47. Zysset, S., Huber, O., Ferstl, E., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2002). The anterior frontomedian cortex and evaluative judgment: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 15, 983-991.