What Parts are Involved?
Can we point to one part of the brain and say, “that is where choking under pressure happens?” For a long time, scientists thought that the prefrontal cortex , which is really important for a lot of cognitive functions like planning, reasoning, and decision-making, was responsible for holding information in working memory.
These scientists came to this conclusion because they noticed high levels of brain activity in the prefrontal cortex when humans used their working memories.
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