I thought this might be of interest here:
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.2277.html
Nature Neuroscience
Published online: 1 March 2009 | doi:10.1038/nn.2277
From the abstract:
"Recent neuroimaging data have motivated the hypothesis that the frontal lobes are organized hierarchically, such that control is supported in progressively caudal regions as decisions are made at more concrete levels of action. We found that frontal damage impaired action decisions at a level of abstraction that was dependent on lesion location (rostral lesions affected more abstract tasks, whereas caudal lesions affected more concrete tasks), in addition to impairing tasks requiring more, but not less, abstract action control. Moreover, two adjacent regions were distinguished on the basis of the level of control, consistent with previous functional magnetic resonance imaging results. These results provide direct evidence for a rostro-caudal hierarchical organization of the frontal lobes."
The full article is behind a paywall, but the authors have a version at
http://www.cog.brown.edu/research/badrelab/papers/badre_nn_inpress.pdf
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Richard Kennaway, jrk@cmp.uea.ac.uk, http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/
School of Computing Sciences,
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.