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The prefrontal areas of the frontal lobes (granular frontal cortex) can be regarded as association areas or intrinsic cortical areas (Mesulam, 2002).

Connectivity of BA46 involvement in the executive control of language/ Estudio de la conectividad del AB46 en el control ejecutivo del lenguaje

The group and Yamaha said past research data have indicated the prefrontal area does not work as much when driving an automobile.

Study finds riding motorcycles useful for brain training

Although, contrary to Silberstein's findings of an increase in SSVEP amplitude and a decrease in SSVEP latency in the prefrontal area, the current study found an increased SSVEP latency in the frontal area and a decreased SSVEP latency posteriorly during the working memory tasks when compared to the CPT.

Spatial working memory and intelligence biological correlates

As the process of forgetting continues, a different prefrontal area quells the activity of structures implicated in conscious recall of information and emotions such as fear.

Forget about it: how the brain suppresses unwanted memories

When participants decided for themselves to inhibit negative emotions, the scientists found activation in the dorso-medial prefrontal area of the brain.

Brain System for Emotional Self-Control Discovered

Drevets and his colleagues studied positron emission tomography (PET) images and found a prefrontal area with reduced blood flow in the brains of 11 people with manic depression, compared to 39 individuals who had no history of severe psychiatric disorders.

Node emerges on brain's emotional network

Each prefrontal area belongs to a general memory network that receives dispatches from hard-bitten neural correspondents interested only in the contents, location, or time of various events, assert psychologist Lars Nyberg of Umea University in Sweden and his colleagues.

The brain's memory helpers

Deacon contends that the left-hemisphere region linking the hoots and coos of monkeys to human utterances is not Broca's area but a patch of tissue just in front of it called the prefrontal area.

Talk of ages: a tiny bone rekindles arguments over the roots of speech and language