The Prefrontal Cortex as an Executive, Emotional, and Social Brain

Masataka Watanabe, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Psychology Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan

Preface.- Part I. Functional organization of the prefrontal cortex in human and nonhuman primates.- Chapter 1 Neural Correlates of Strategic Decision Making in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex.- Chapter 2 Functional division among prefrontal cortical areas in an analog of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.- Chapter 3 Working memory functions of the prefrontal cortex.- Part II. Prefrontal cortex as an integrator of executive and emotional function.- Chapter 4 Prefrontal cortex integration of emotion and cognition.- Chapter 5 Interaction of dopamine and glutamate release in the primate prefrontal cortex in relation to working memory and reward.- Chapter 6 Neuronal risk processing in human and monkey prefrontal cortex.- Chapter 7 Hierarchical Organization of Frontoparietal Control Networks Underlying Goal-Directed Behavior.- Part III. Prefrontal cortex as an integrator of executive and social function.- Chapter 8 Self–other differentiation and monitoring others’ actions in the medial prefrontal cortex of the monkey.- Chapter 9 Neural correlates of competition in the primate prefrontal cortex.- Chapter 10 Self-recognition process in the human prefrontal cortex.- Chapter 11 Shared attention and inter-individual neural synchronization in the human right inferior frontal cortex.- Part IV. Default mode of brain activity and the prefrontal cortex.- Chapter12 Default mode of brain activity observed in the lateral, medial and orbital prefrontal cortex in the monkey.- Chapter13 Coactivation of default mode network and executive network regions in the human brain.