====== Brodmann area 10 ======

//Brodmann area 10// (a.k.a. //BA10, frontopolar prefrontal cortex, rostrolateral prefrontal cortex//, or //anterior prefrontal cortex//) is a frontal lobe area in the human brain which has been found to be generally associated with working [[content:psychology:general:memory|memory]] and multiple-task coordination. The area has also been implicated in 'decision making'.

But there's a lack of agreement (and lack of specification) among neuroscientists on specific functions.

>One of the least well understood regions of the human brain is rostral prefrontal cortex, approximating Brodmann's area 10. Here, we investigate the possibility that there are functional subdivisions within this region by conducting a meta-analysis of 104 functional neuroimaging studies (using positron emission tomography/functional magnetic resonance imaging). Studies involving working memory and episodic memory retrieval were disproportionately associated with lateral activations, whereas studies involving mentalizing (i.e., attending to one's own emotions and mental states or those of other agents) were disproportionately associated with medial activations."\\ \\ Source : [[https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.6.932|Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience]] {{:oa_padlock_red.png?16}}18 (6): 932–948.

//Note: //This brain area is just one of the many examples of 'brain areas' - many of which are simply legacy-anatomical regions with more or less arbitrary borders - which have very ill-defined functions.

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Also see [[content:life_sciences:human_body:fusiform_gyrus|Fusiform Gyrus]]