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Volume 17, Number 23,
Issue of December 1, 1997
pp. 9285-9297
Dissociable Forms of Inhibitory Control within Prefrontal Cortex
with an Analog of the Wisconsin Card Sort Test: Restriction to Novel
Situations and Independence from "On-Line" Processing
Received June 16, 1997; revised Aug. 25, 1997; accepted Sept. 11, 1997.
R. Dias1,
T.
W. Robbins1, and
A. C. Roberts2
1 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, United Kingdom, and
2 Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
CB2 3DY, United Kingdom
Attentional set-shifting and discrimination reversal are sensitive
to prefrontal damage in the marmoset in a manner qualitatively similar
to that seen in man and Old World monkeys, respectively (). Preliminary findings have demonstrated that although lateral
but not orbital prefrontal cortex is the critical locus in
shifting an attentional set between
perceptual dimensions, orbital but not lateral prefrontal cortex is the
critical locus in reversing a stimulus-reward
association within a particular perceptual dimension
(). The present study presents this analysis in full
and extends the results in three main ways by demonstrating that (1)
mechanisms of inhibitory control and "on-line" processing are
independent within the prefrontal cortex, (2) impairments in inhibitory
control induced by prefrontal damage are restricted to novel
situations, and (3) those prefrontal areas involved in the suppression
of previously established response sets are not involved in the
acquisition of such response sets.
These findings suggest that inhibitory control is a general
process that operates across functionally distinct regions within the
prefrontal cortex. Although damage to lateral prefrontal cortex causes
a loss of inhibitory control in attentional selection, damage to
orbitofrontal cortex causes a loss of inhibitory control in affective
processing. These findings provide an explanation for the apparent
discrepancy between human and nonhuman primate studies in which
disinhibition as measured on the Wisconsin Card Sort Test is associated
with dorsolateral prefrontal damage, whereas disinhibition as measured
on discrimination reversal is associated with orbitofrontal damage.
Key words:
attentional set-shifting;
reversal learning;
prefrontal cortex;
response inhibition;
Wisconsin Card Sort Test;
working memory
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