What Does Medial Frontal Cortex Signal During Behavior? Insights from Behavioral Neurophysiology

Since the inception of cognitive and systems neuroscience, the question of what the medial frontal cortex does has remained central. This volume, “What does Medial Frontal Cortex Signal During Behavior? Insights from Behavioral Neurophysiology, Volume 158,” addresses this question with insights from 17 leading teams of scientists in the field.

Chapter Highlights

The book covers several topics, including:

• What do single unit responses in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex mean?
• Social Processing by the Primate Medial Frontal Cortex
• Medial frontal cortex and the temporal control of action
• The midcingulate cortex and temporal integration

Additional chapters delve into:

• The anterior cingulate cortex and event-based modulation of autonomic states
• Integration of value and action in medial prefrontal neural systems
• Secondary motor cortex: broadcasting and biasing animals’ decisions through long-range circuits
• The prefrontal cortex in social cognition
• Representing task strategies in the medial prefrontal cortex
• Prefrontal contributions to action control in rodents
• From affective to cognitive processings: functional organization of the medial frontal cortex

Expert Perspectives

This volume comprises the perspectives of a diverse array of world-leading researchers in medial frontal cortex function. It provides the latest theoretical and data-based evidence for the function of the medial frontal cortex, highlighting the importance of systems-based neuroscience approaches to understanding this critical region of the brain.

Key Features

This book:

• Comprises the perspectives of a diverse array of world-leading researchers in medial frontal cortex function
• Provides the latest theoretical and data-based evidence for the function of medial frontal cortex
• Presents the importance of systems-based neuroscience approaches to the understanding of medial frontal cortex function

For those interested in cognitive and systems neuroscience, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the medial frontal cortex’s role in behavior, providing insights into its function and significance in the field.