A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can you…
'The Orbitofrontal Cortex' explores a part of the brain that is important in human emotion, pleasure, decision-making, valuation, and personality. In ten chapters the book describes: DT The OFC's connections; DT Its neuron level neurophysiology which is essential for understandi…
'The Orbitofrontal Cortex' explores a part of the brain that is important in human emotion, pleasure, decision-making, valuation, and personality. The text is unique in providing a coherent multidisciplinary approach to understanding the functions of one of the most interesting …
"This book is intended to fulfill the need for a broad compendium of the most recent empirical and theoretical advances in the field of Cognition and Emotion, especially focusing on the roles of the limbic and association cortical systems. However, the scope of this book is not …
by Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam), International summer school of brain research, Amsterdam), Nederlands Instituut voor Hersenonderzoek, Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam
"This chapter explains why this book is organized as it is. Each neocortical area has a unique pattern of inputs and outputs. This means that the challenge is to understand the transformation that each of the prefrontal areas performs from input to output. Functional brain imagi…
