The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

By Richard E. Passingham, S. Wise. 2012

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Orthogonal representations for robust context-dependent task performance in brains and neural networks (2022, neutral): “Humans and other primates can exhibit versatile control over behavior in rapidly changing contexts (Passingham and Wise, 2012).”
The foraging brain (2015, background): “Second, much of primate brain evolution is driven specifically by the cognitive demands of foraging [18].”
Emotion and the Prefrontal Cortex: An Integrative Review (2017, background): “Moreover, different brain regions emerged at different points in mammalian evolution (e.g., the pregenual cingulate cortex is evolutionarily older than the adjacent rostromedial prefrontal cortex), suggesting variations in functional contribution (Passingham & Wise, 2012; Wise, 2008).”
Are there specialized circuits for social cognition and are they unique to humans? (2013, background): “Some neuroanatomical features, such as a granular prefrontal cortex, are shared with other primates but not with any other mammals and may reflect the complexity of the foraging decisions faced by many diurnal primates [2 ,3].”
Navigating the Affordance Landscape: Feedback Control as a Process Model of Behavior and Cognition. (2016, unknown): “For example, it has been proposed that sophisticated forms of prospective cognition may require specific adaptations in primates associated with the appearance of granular prefrontal cortex [45], and computational studies may help to elucidate the underlying computational principles [41,70].”