The prefrontal cortex and internally generated motor acts.
The neuroanatomical and neurophysiological data that have been obtained from experimental primates are converging on a framework for understanding the prefrontal influence on motor output. The framework isolates internally memory-based functions from externally guided sensory-based functions, identifies the internally-based functions with prefrontal circuits, the sensory-based functions with premotor circuits, and integrates the specializations of prefrontal, premotor and subcortical structures in the control of motor acts.
Goldman-Rakic
P S
PS
Section of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
Bates
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JF
Chafee
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MV
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