Managing competing goals — a key role for the frontopolar cortex

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 645 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.111 Authors: Farshad Alizadeh Mansouri, Etienne Koechlin, Marcello G. P. Rosa & Mark J. Buckley Humans are set apart from other animals by many elements of advanced cognition and behaviour, including language, judgement and reasoning. What is special about the human brain that gives rise to these abilities? Could the foremost part of the prefrontal cortex (the frontopolar cortex), which
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