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Friends, Free will is the capacity to choose between alternatives of action. In philosophical discourse, the debate—never resolved—is between real, not illusory, freedom of action and determinism....
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Friends, The difficulty to form and execute plans of action is diagnostic of large prefrontal lesions. The expectancy of reward activates many neurons, especially in orbital prefrontal...
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The motor cortex is in the frontal lobe; the prefrontal cortex controls the main executive functions (executive attention, working memory, decision-making, inhibitory control); patients with...
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Memories and knowledge are acquired by mechanisms we don’t yet quite understand and mediated by limbic formations, notably the hippocampus (“old cortex”). After a period of consolidation, they...
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This is not a rhetorical question. It is intended to generate scholarly and dispassionate discussion about a timely issue with significant political and economic implications. Is the analogy...
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Baddeley (1983) said it clearly, that working memory is the temporary retention of recent information for the performance of a task or the solution of a problem. Yet the future perspective...
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Single-unit studies of cortical neurons indicate that memory and knowledge are widely distributed in overlapping and interactive neuronal networks, in accord with associationist and connectionist...
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