Chapter Outline

TOWARD A WORKING MODEL OF PREFRONTAL CORTEX FUNCTION

The Essence of Intelligence

Phineas Gage: A Case of the Disruption of Goal-Directed Behavior

Anatomical Considerations

Problems in the Interpretation of Deficits Following Prefrontal Lesions

A Working Model of Prefrontal Function

IMPAIRMENT IN FUNCTION AFTER PREFRONTAL LESIONS IN HUMANS

Emotion and Motivation

Social Behavior

Memory

General Intelligence

Language

Inventiveness, Ideational Fluency,and Divergent Thinking

Abstract and Conceptual Thinking

Executive Function: Planning and the Goal-Directed Organization of Behavior

The Channeling of Drive Into Goal-Directed Behavior: Inhibiting the Disruptive Effect of Impulsive Behavior

Goal-Directed Behavior and Environmental Stimuli

Integrating Goal-Directed Behavior With Its Consequences

Prefrontal Syndromes

THEORIES OF PREFRONTAL FUNCTION

An Animal Model of Prefrontal Function

Breakdown in the Guidance of Behavior by Representational Knowledge as the Essence of Impairment in Delayed Response

Specialization of the Principal Sulcus for Visuospatial Delayed Response in the Monkey

Other Prefrontal Subsystems

The Problem of Integration in Prefrontal Cortex

SUMMARY