[A historical view of behavioural alterations due to lesions in the prefrontal cortex: from Phineas Gage to Luria].

Abstract

Over the last 200 years, a number of authors have considered the prefrontal cortex to be the 'organ of civilisation', that is, the most characteristically human part of the brain, while others have seen this region of the brain as playing a far less important role in behaviour.