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SUBMITTER: Badre D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2990342 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature neuroscience 20090301 4
Cognitive control permits us to make decisions about abstract actions, such as whether to e-mail versus call a friend, and to select the concrete motor programs required to produce those actions, based on our goals and knowledge. The frontal lobes are necessary for cognitive control at all levels of abstraction. Recent neuroimaging data have motivated the hypothesis that the frontal lobes are organized hierarchically, such that control is supported in progressively caudal regions as decisions ar ...[more]