From
the clinical perspective it is usually assumed that BA11 (base of the
frontal pole) is related with something that could be termed “personality
integrity.” Personality changes observed in traumatic brain injury
individuals are supposed to result from damage of this orbital
frontal area. Of course, “personality” (i.e., style of behavior)
is an extremely difficult concept to approach in fMRI experiments.
Nonetheless, it could be conjectured that BA11 participate in some
individual’s “style of reacting” or “emotional idiosyncratic
style”. In the available fMRI reports there is some paucity in the
analysis of the emotional components of behavior. Only one study
partially approaches this question (“decision making involving
reward”)
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