Psychophysiology of the Frontal Lobes

List of Contributors

Preface

Part One Introduction

1. The Frontal Lobes and the Regulation of Behavior

Part Two The Effect of Frontal Lesions on the Electrical Activity of the Brain of Man

2. Application of the Method of Evoked Potentials to the Analysis of Activation Processes in Patients with Lesions of the Frontal Lobes

3. Changes in the Asymmetry of EEG Waves in Different Functional States in Normal Subjects and in Patients with Lesions of the Frontal Lobes

4. Changes in the Electroencephalogram Frequency Spectrum during the Presentation of Neutral and Meaningful Stimuli to Patients with Lesions of the Frontal Lobes

Part Three The Nature of the Electrical Activity of the Frontal Cortex in Man

5. Correlation of Biopotentials in the Frontal Parts of the Human Brain

6. Human Frontal Lobe Function in Sensory-Motor Association

Part Four The Nature of Electrical Activity in the Frontal Cortex of Nonhuman Primates

7. While a Monkey Waits

8. The Locus and Crucial Time of Implication of Prefrontal Cortex in the Delayed Response Task

Part Five The Relationship between Frontal Cortex and Subcortical Brain Function

9. Transient Memory and Neuronal Activity in the Thalamus

10. The Role of the Brain Stem in Orbital Cortex Induced Inhibition of Somatic Reflexes

11. The Nonspecific Mediothalamic-Frontocortical System: Its Influence on Electrocortical and Behavior

Part Six Experimentally Based Models of Frontal Lobe Function

12. Study on the Functional Mechanisms of the Dorsolateral Frontal Lobe Cortex

13. The Primate Frontal Cortex and Allassostasis

Part Seven Conclusion

14. The Primate Frontal Cortex-Executive of the Brain

Author Index

Subject Index