Chapter 13 Outline
- Introduction
- Introductory Box Environmental Dependency Syndrome
- A Taxonomy of Executive Function
- Prefrontal Cortex: A Key Contributor to Executive Function
- Organization and connectivity of the prefrontal cortex
- Consequences of damage to the prefrontal cortex
- Box 13A Comparative Anatomy of the Prefrontal Cortex
- Establishing and Modifying Behavioral Rules
- Initiating rules for behavior
- Inhibiting rules for behavior
- Inhibiting socially inappropriate behaviors
- Shifting among rules for behavior
- Relating rules to create higher-order models of the world
- Hierarchical models for executive function
- Box 13B The Neurobiology of Intelligence
- Box 13C Reasoning
- Control: Matching Behavior to Context
- Conflict monitoring
- Challenges to the conflict-monitoring model
- Functional organization of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex
- Working Memory: Maintaining Information and Rules over Time
- Neural substrates of working memory