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does the fronto-parieto-temporal network include the premotor cortex?

Erlick Pereira eacp2 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Sat May 5 09:11:34 EST 2001


very much so.  I think it is just a more modern way of referring to
association cortex really!  Posner and Petersen's (1990) description of
"posterior and anteior attentional systems" are more clear, I find.  Limbic
systems strongly innervate ventromedial/orbitofrontal PFC and dorsolateral
PFC has recpirocal connections to parietal cortex.  To exclude the PFC from
attentional networks would be folly.

> does the fronto-parieto-temporal network, as in "Gitelman et al. (1999 )
> stated, "The frontal eye field has a relative specialization for the overt
> motor-exploratory aspect of spatial attention, the posterior parietal
cortex
> for the sensory representational and sensorimotor aspect, and the
cingulate
> gyrus (the cingulate gyrus contains most of the afferent (input) fibres to
> the hippocampus) for the limbic-motivational aspect." This has been
> supported by other studies (Vallar et al., 1999 , Corbetta et al.,
1998 )."
> include the premotor cortex?






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