{"id":8001,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/frontal_cortex\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:57","slug":"frontal_cortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/frontal_cortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontal cortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The front third of the cortex, which has the motor cortex as its posterior boundary. &nbsp;Involved in aspects of motor planning, working memory, organization of behavior with respect to future goals (i.e., executive functions).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder_-adhd-\">Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)<\/a>, <a href=\"brain_damage_studies\">Brain damage studies<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebellum_and_basal_ganglia\">Cerebellum and basal ganglia<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebral_cortex_-development-\">Cerebral cortex (development)<\/a>, <a href=\"cortical_lobes\">Cortical lobes<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsolateral_prefrontal_cortex_-dlpfc-\">Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)<\/a>, <a href=\"executive_function_-ef-\">Executive function (EF)<\/a>, <a href=\"frontal_lobes\">Frontal lobes<\/a>, <a href=\"inhibitory_control\">Inhibitory control<\/a>, <a href=\"internal_speech\">Internal speech<\/a>, <a href=\"meninges\">Meninges<\/a>, <a href=\"metabolism\">Metabolism<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_inhibition\">Motor inhibition<\/a>, <a href=\"orbitofrontal_cortex\">Orbitofrontal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"prefrontal_cortex_-pfc-\">Prefrontal cortex (PFC)<\/a>, <a href=\"response_inhibition_tasks\">Response inhibition tasks<\/a>, <a href=\"wisconsin_card_sorting_test_-wcst-\">Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front third of the cortex, which has the motor cortex as its posterior boundary. &nbsp;Involved in aspects of motor planning, working memory, organization of behavior with respect to future goals (i.e., executive functions).&nbsp; See Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Brain damage studies, Cerebellum and basal ganglia, Cerebral cortex (development), Cortical lobes, Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/frontal_cortex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frontal cortex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}