Cognitive Sciences Department

École normale supérieure - 29, rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris cedex 05 - France

Access - Ground floor, on the left after the main entrance

Phone / Fax : +33 1 44 32 26 80 / 86

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Directeur : Christian Lorenzi

Directeur des études : Jérôme Sackur
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Responsable administrative : Nathalie Marcinek

Education-Valorisation-Ethique : R.-Emmanuel Easte

Research

Rdc du 29 rue d'Ulm
NPI : A.-C. Bachoud-Levi
SIGMA : D. Sportiche
NASH : D. Sperber

1er étage du 29 rue d'Ulm
LNC : E. Koechlin

2ème étage du 29 rue d'Ulm
APMN : D. Pressnitzer

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Pavillon du 29 rue d'Ulm
IHPST : J. Dubucs
IJN : P. Jacob
LSCP : E. Dupoux / A. Christophe

3 rue d'Ulm
GNT : B. Gutkin / S. Deneve

Autres sites
CENIR: S. Lehericy / R. Frackowiak

Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2010 15:13

Motivation and cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex

NATURE NEUROSCIENCE VOLUME 12 NUMBER 7 JULY 2009

Frederique Kouneiher, Sylvain Charron & Etienne Koechlin

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) subserves cognitive control, that is, the ability to select thoughts or actions in relation to internal goals. Little is known, however, about how the PFC combines motivation and the selection processes underlying cognitive control. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans and found that the medial and lateral PFC have a parallel hierarchical organization from posterior to anterior regions for motivating and selecting behaviors, respectively....