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The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function (2005)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Burgess05thegateway,
author = {Paul W. Burgess and Iroise Dumontheil and Sam J. Gilbert},
title = {The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function},
booktitle = {In},
year = {2005},
publisher = {University Press}
}
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Abstract
Rostral prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a large brain region, and is unusually large in humans. Therefore, it seems likely that it might support functions that are central to cogni-tion. However, until recently, almost nothingwas known about what these functions might be. The ‘gateway hypothesis ’ places these abilities at the centre of human mental processing. It maintains that rostral PFC sup-ports mechanisms that enable us to attend, to a novel degree, either to environmental stimuli, or by contrast, to self-generated or maintained representations (i.e. the ‘thoughts in our head’). In this way, investigations into the functions of rostral PFC will reveal key new insights into how human and non-human mental abilities differ.
