Functional studies of prefrontal cortex in three species of primate

The prefrontal cortex is known as a region, most directly involved in cognitive control. One of the most intriguing mysteries in neuroscience is how cognitive control is being implemented. In this thesis, I focused on three prefrontal regions, namely the frontal visual areas (involved in the final stage of cortical processing of saccadic eye movements and visual spatial attention), the frontal pole cortex (involved in multitasking, prospective memory, and exploratory behaviour) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (involved in top-down cognitive control on behavioural modulation during conflict-inducing tasks) and investigated their contributions to cognitive control processes in humans and non-human primates.