<p>Between Brodmann areas 9, 10, 44 and 45 is the Dorso-Lateral Pre-Frontal Cortex (DLPFC). This area is the highest cortical area responsible for motor planning, organization and regulation. It has an important role in the integration of sensory and mnemonic information.</p><p>This area has cortical (surface) and sub cortical (under the surface—white matter) circuits for complex mental activity and executive functions. It plays a large role in executive memory (working memory, spatial memory, and short term memory), memory retrieval and encoding/recognition, as well as prospective memory, abstract thinking, intentionality and motivation.&nbsp;</p><p>In addition, this area is responsible for error processing and detection, processing emotional stimuli, self-reflection in decision making, pleasant and unpleasant emotions, inferential reasoning, decision weighing (conflict and reward), planning, and attribution of intention to others.</p><p>The sensory responsibilities of the dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex have to do with joint attention and autonomic nervous system regulation. The autonomic nervous system (ANS or visceral nervous system or involuntary nervous system) is the part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system that functions largely below the level of consciousness to control visceral functions, including heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, salivation, perspiration, pupillary dilation, micturition (urination), sexual arousal, breathing and swallowing. Most autonomous functions are involuntary but they can often work in conjunction with the somatic nervous system which provides voluntary control.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/ba-10.png?time=1587057223964" alt="" width="258" height="400" role="presentation" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_text-bottom" style="font-size: 1rem;"></p>