Neuropsicología de Lóbulos Frontales, Funciones Ejecutivas y Conducta Humana

espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es proporcionar una vision integrativa de la neuropsicologia de los lobulos frontales, su organizacion funcional basica y las funciones cognitivas y conductuales que soporta, entre ellas las funciones ejecutivas. Los lobulos frontales son las estructuras cerebrales de mas reciente evolucion en la especie humana, presentan la organizacion funcional mas compleja y diversa del cerebro humano. Se dividen funcionalmente en tres grandes areas: orbital, medial y dorsolateral, en este articulo se presenta un revision basica de las funciones neuropsicologicas soportadas por cada una de estas areas. Esta revision pretende aportar al lector una comprension basica de la neuropsicologia de los lobulos frontales y de su aportacion heterogenea a la conducta humana. EnglishThe article objective is to bring an integrative perspective on frontal lobe neuropsychology, the basics concepts in frontal lobes functional organization and the behavioural and cognitive functions supported by these brain areas. The frontal lobes are the most recent developed brain areas in the human specie; they present the most complex and diverse functional organization of the human brain. They are functional divided in three large areas: orbital, medial and dorsolateral, a basic review of the neuropsychologycal functions suported by each one of these areas is presented in this article. This review pretends to provide a basic understanding of frontal lobe neuropsychology and its heterogeneous influence in human behaviour.

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