PSY346H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Premotor Cortex, Frontal Lobe
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There are also mirror neurons, that are active when we are doing something that also other people do. Ba refers to broadmen areas, and he was the guy who identify over 100 distinct areas in the brain, and these areas mark almost perfectly the functional distinctions. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (top and front), lateral frontopolar cortex is often synonymously associated with orbital frontal cortex because they are located at the same place, and we will mostly refer to orbital frontal cortex. It has been implicated in studies of working memory, cognitive exibility - to stretch and think about things in different ways, and planning (impulsive actions). This is often studied in children and infants, because we can see classic errors they do, because of the lack of maturity in this cortex, where memory is the key part, and small children lack having good memory:
