Joaquin M Fuster

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What is the cerebral foundation of free will?

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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Why are the future aspects of prefrontal functions neglected?

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 Executive of the Brain”: is this a useful concept?

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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What is the minimal neural structure capable of storing a personal memory or item of knowledge in the cerebral cortex?

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...

23 May 2016 1,062 40 View

Why is working memory considered a special kind of memory instead of a state of memory?

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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