Prefrontal-parietal function: From foraging to foresight

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 72-81

  Genovesio, Aldo ^a   Wise, Steven P ^b,c   Passingham, Richard E ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Olschefskie Institute for the Neurobiology of Knowledge   (United States)

^c Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTICES; SINGLE EVENT; SPECIALIZED NETWORKS;

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

MAMMALS;

BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; ECOLOGY; FORAGING; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; SIMIAN;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84892965910     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.11.007     Document Type: Review

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