Specialisation within the prefrontal cortex: the ventral prefrontal cortex and associative learning.

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This paper provides evidence that the ventral prefrontal cortex plays a role in the learning of tasks in which subjects must learn to associate visual cues and responses. Imaging with both positron-emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals learning-related increases in activity when normal subjects learn visual associative tasks. Evidence is also presented from an event-related fMRI study that activity in this area is time-locked both to the presentati...

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Authors: Passingham, R; Toni, I; Rushworth, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Experimental brain research
• Volume: 133
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-113
• Publication date: 2000-07-01
• Event title: Workshop on Executive Control and the Frontal Lobe
• DOI: 10.1007/s002210000405
• EISSN: 1432-1106
• ISSN: 0014-4819
• Keywords: Prefrontal Cortex; Macaca; Association Learning; Animals; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Tomography, Emission-Computed; Humans