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Towards a normative understanding of higher-order brain activity
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Behavioural flexibility is a major hallmark of animal intelligence and higher-order brain areas such as the prefrontal cortex are thought to play a crucial role in it: They are particularly well connected to the rest of the brain, they are disproportionately well developed in higher primates, and they have been shown to be involved in the executive functions that are thought to enable this flexibility, such as decision making, working
memory, planning, and attention. With the advent of novel recording techniques, we are gaining an increasingly complete view of higher-order brain activity while animals perform behavioural tasks. Using these data, we can now try to add to the conceptual understanding of higher-order brain functions that we already have by elucidating their neural basis.
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Brain activity Behavioural