Prefrontal regions in charge of overall decision making vs. task subcomponents: Koechlin, E., Basso, G., Pietrini, P., Panzer, S., & Grafman, J. (1999). The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition.
Prefrontal cortical activation in rational problem solving: Kroger, J, K., Sabb, F. W, Fales, С L., Bookheimer, S. Y, Cohen, M. S., & Holyoak, K. J. (2002). Recruitment of anterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human reasoning: a parametric study of relational complexity.
Prefrontal resources in inductive and deductive reasoning: Osherson, D., Perani, D., Cappa, S., Schnur, T, Grassi, E, & Fazio, F. (1998). Distinct brain loci in deductive versus probabilistic reasoning.
Executive memories: Fuster, J. M. (2003).
Frontal lobes serve as the repository of executive memories:
Intentionality, ethical behavior, morality and empathy as subjects of cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology: Goldberg, E. (2001; paperback 2002).
Social neuroscience: Cacioppo, J. T. (2002).
Behavioral economics: Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (2000).
Neuroeconomics: Sanfey, A. G., Rilling J. K., Aronson J. A., Nystrom, L. E., & Cohen, J. D. (2003). The neural basis of economic decisionmaking in the ultimatum game.
Neuromarketing: Thompson, C. (October 26, 2003). «There Is as Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex.»
Functional neuroimaging and political commercials: Tierney, J. (April 20, 2004). «Using M.RI.’s to See Politics on the Brain.»
Capital punishment in the mentally retarded: Beckman, M. (2004). Neuroscience. Crime, culpability, and the adolescent brain.
Figure 12: Adapted from Vogeley, K., Podell, K., Kukolja, J., Schilbach, L., Goldberg, E., Zilles, K, et al. (2003). Recruitment of the Left Prefrontal Cortex in Preference-Based Decisions in Males (fMRI Study). Paper presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York.
Figure 13: Adapted from Brodmann, K. (1909).
Creation of Adam spin-off: Goldberg, E. (2001; paperback 2002).
Frontal lobes in empathy: Singer, Т., Seymour, В., O’Doherty, J., Raube, H., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, С D. (2004). Empathy for pain involves the affective but not sensory components of pain.
Frontal lobes in theory of mind: Fletcher, P. C, Happe, F., Frith, U., Baker. S. C, Dolan, R. J., Frackowiak, R. S., et al. (1995). Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of «theory of mind» in story comprehension.
Lack of insight following frontal damage: Goldberg, E. (2001; paperback 2002).
Criminality, antisocial personality, and impulsive aggression linked to prefrontal dysfunction: Raine, A., Buchsbaum, M., & LaCasse, L. (1997). Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography.
Causal learning and the frontal lobes: Turner, D. C. Aitken, M. R, Shanks, D R, Sahakian, B. J., Robbins, T. W, Schwarzbauer, C, et al. (2004). The role of the lateral frontal cortex in causal associative learning: exploring preventative and super-learning.