Which Part of the Brain Seems to Be Involved in Encoding

question 40

Multiple Choice

Which part of the brain seems to be involved in encoding and retrieval?

• A) the orbital prefrontal cortex
• B) the medial prefrontal cortex
• C) the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
• D) the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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Definitions:

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