Ниже я привожу список девяти функций срединной префронтальной области и литературу, прямо или косвенно подтверждающую предположение о том, что эти функции коррелируют с интегративной активностью в срединной префронтальной области.

1. Регуляция телесных функций

Critchley, H. D., Mathias, C. J., Josephs, O., O’Doherty J., Zanini, S., Dewar, B.-K., Cipolotti, L., Shallice, T., & Dolan R. J. (2003). Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: Converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence. Brain, 126: 2139–2152.

Lane R. D., Reiman, E. M., Ahern, G. L., & Thayer J. F. (2001). Activity in medial prefrontal cortex correlates with vagal component of heart rate variability during emotion. Brain Cogn, 47: 97–100.

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Öngür, D., & Price, J. L. (2000). The organization of networks within the orbital and medial prefrontal cortex of rats, monkeys, and humans. Cerebral Cortex, 10 (3): 206–219.

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2. Сонастроенное общение

Bar-On, R., Tranel, D., Denburg, N. L., & Bechara, A. (2003). Exploring the neurological substrate of emotional and social intelligence. Brain, 126: 1790–1800.

Beer, J. S., Heerey, E. A., Keltner, D., Scabini, D., & Knight, R. T. (2003). The regulatory function of self-conscious emotion: Insights from patients with orbitofrontal damage. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85 (4): 594–604.

Mah, L. W. Y., Arnold, M. C., & Grafman, J. (2005). Deficits in social knowledge following damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 17: 66–74.

Nitschke, J. B., Nelson, E. E., Rusch, B. D., Fox, A. S., Oakes, T. R., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants. Neuroimage, 21: 583–592.

Schore, A. N. (2003). Affect dysregulation and disorders of the self. New York: W. W. Norton.

Trevarthen, C. (2001). Intrinsic motives for companionship in understanding: Their origin, development and significance for infant mental health. Journal of Infant Mental Health, 2 (1–2): 95–131.

3. Эмоциональное равновесие

Blumberg, H. P., Leung, H.-C., Skuklarski, P., Lacadie, B. S., Fredericks, C. A., Harris, B. C., Charney, D. S., et al. (2003). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of bipolar disorder: State– and trait-related dysfunction in ventral prefrontal cortices. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60: 601–609.

Bush, G., Luu, P., & Posner, M. I. (2000). Cognitive and emotional influences in anterior cingulate cortex. Trends Cogn Sci, 4: 215–22.

Davidson, R. J., Jackson, D. C., & Kalin, N. H. (2000). Emotion, plasticity, context, and regulation: Perspectives from affective neuroscience. Psychological Bulletin, 126(6): 890–909.

Happaney, K., Zelazo, P. D., Stuss, D. T. (2004). Development of orbitofrontal function: Current themes and future directions. Brain and Cognition, 55: 1–10.

Phan K. L., Wager, T., Taylor S. F., & Liberzon, I. (2002). Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: A meta-analysis of emotion activation studies in PET and fMRI. Neuroimage, 2: 331–48.

Tucker, D. M., Luu, P., & Pribram, K. H. (1995). Social and emotional selfregulation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 769(1): 213–239.

4. Гибкость реакций

Carter C. S., Botvinick, M., & Cohen J. D. (1999). The contribution of the anterior cingulate cortex to executive processes in cognition. Rev Neurosci, 10: 49–57.

Chambers, C. D., Bellgrove M. A., Stokes, M. G., Henderson, T. R., Garavan, H., Robertson, I. H., Morris, A. P., & Mattingley, J. B. (2006). Executive “brake failure” following deactivation of human frontal lobe. J Cogn Neurosci, 18: 444–455.

Fellows, L. K. (2004). The cognitive neuroscience of human decision making: A review and conceptual framework. Cogn Neurosci Rev, 3(3): 159–172.

Gehring, W. J., & Fencsik, D. E. (2001). Functions of the medial frontal cortex in the processing of conflict and errors. J Neurosci, 21: 9430–9437.

Gottfried, J. A., O’Doherty, J., & Dolan, R. J. (2003). Encoding predictive reward value in human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. Science, 301(5636): 1104–1107.

Schoenbaum, G., & Setlow, B. (2001). Integrating orbitofrontal cortex into prefrontal theory: Common processing themes across species and subdivisions. Learning and Memory, 8(3): 134–147.

Turken, A. U., & Swick, D. (1999). Response selection in the human anterior cingulate cortex. Nat Neurosci, 2: 920–4.

5. Эмпатия

Carr, L., Iacoboni, M., Dubeau, M. C., Maziotta, J. C., & Lenzi, G. L. (2003). Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: A relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas. PNAS, 100(9): 5497–5502.

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Heisel, A. D., & Beatty, M. J. (2006). Are cognitive representations of friends’ request refusals implemented in the orbitofrontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices? A cognitive neuroscience approach to ‘theory of mind’ in relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 23: 249–265.

Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Tomer, R., Berger, B. D., Goldsher, D., & Aharon-Peretz, J. (2005). Impaired “affective theory of mind” is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage. Cog Behav Neurol, 18: 55–67.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Preston, S. D. (2002). Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25: 1–20.

6. Прозрение, или инсайт (самосознающее сознавание)

Beer, J. S., John, O. P., Donatella, S., & Knight, R. T. (2006). Orbitofrontal cortex and social behavior: Integrating self-monitoring and emotion cognition interactions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18: 871–879.

Beitman, B. D., & Nair, J. (Eds.) (2005). Self-awareness deficits in psychiatric patients: Assessment and treatment. New York: W. W. Norton.

Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (1999). Interacting minds – A biological basis. Science, 286 (5445), 1692–1695.

Wood, J. N., Knutson, K. M., & Grafman, J. (2005). Psychological structure and neural correlates of event knowledge. Cerebral Cortex, 15: 1155–1161.