Question

The prefrontal cortex:

Question 10 options:

1)	is involved in retrieving and organizing autobiographical and episodic memories and for encoding and storing the sequence of events.

2)	seems to encode emotional qualities associated with particular memories.

3)	plays a critical role in the ability to form memories of numerical concepts.

4)	is involved in encoding information about the location where a particular memory occurred.

Answer 1

The answer is 2nd one.

Prefrontal cortex is the cerebral cortex in brain which covers the frontal part of the frontal lobe and it contains the Broadmann areas 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 24, 25, 32, 44, 45, 46, 47.

Functions:

- Planning complex cognitive behaviour

- personality expression

- Decision making, moderating social behaviour

- Ability to differentiate conflicting thoughts, identify good and bad, better and best, same and different outcome prediction, social control.