Motivation, control and prefrontal executive function

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Event Abstract Back to Event Motivation, control and prefrontal executive function Etienne Koechlin1* 1 INSERM, Ecole Normale Superieure, France The prefrontal cortex subserves executive control, i.e. the ability to make decisions and to regulate behavior according to external events, mental models of external contingencies, internal drives and subjective preferences. Executive control is known to operate along three major dimensions, namely the affective, motivational and cognitive control of action subserved by the orbital, medial and lateral sectors of the PFC, respectively. In this talk, I will address the two following issues: (1) the functional organization of motivational and cognitive control in the medial and lateral prefrontal cortex, respectively. (2) The functional interactions between the medial and lateral prefrontal cortex. I will present results from recent neuroimaging experiments in Humans supporting an integrative model describing how motivational and cognitive control form a unitary executive control system. Conference: The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes, Toronto, Canada, 22 Mar - 26 Mar, 2010. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Topic: Symposium 4: Cognitive Neuroscience Citation: Koechlin E (2010). Motivation, control and prefrontal executive function. Conference Abstract: The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.14.00011 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 25 Jun 2010; Published Online: 25 Jun 2010. * Correspondence: Etienne Koechlin, INSERM, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, etienne.koechlin@upmc.fr Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Etienne Koechlin Google Etienne Koechlin Google Scholar Etienne Koechlin PubMed Etienne Koechlin Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.