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
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