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The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex - Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight (Hardcover)
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The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex - Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Psychology Series
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The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a third of the human brain,
and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution.
The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory
about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the
authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex
evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that our ancestors
could overcome periodic food shortages. This evolutionary
development laid the foundation for working out problems in our
imagination, which resulted in the origin of insights that allow
humans to avoid errors entirely, at least at times.
In the book, the authors detail which parts of the prefrontal
cortex evolved exclusively in primates, how its connections explain
why the prefrontal cortex alone can perform its function, and why
other parts of the brain cannot do what the prefrontal cortex does.
Based on an analysis of its evolutionary history, the book uses
evidence from lesion, imaging, and cell-recording experiments to
argue that the primate prefrontal cortex generates goals from a
current behavioural context and that it can do so on the basis of
single events. As a result, the prefrontal cortex uses the
attentive control of behaviour to augment an older general-purpose
learning system, one that evolved very early in the history of
animals. This older system learns slowly and cumulatively over many
experiences based on reinforcement. The authors argue that a new
learning system evolved in primates at a particular time and place
in their history, that it did so to decrease the errors inherent in
the older learning system, and that severe volatility of food
resources provided the driving force for these developments.
Written by two leading brain scientists, the Neurobiology of the
Prefrontal Cortex is an important contribution to our understanding
of the evolution and functioning of the human brain.
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