Does ventrolateral prefrontal cortex help in searching for the lost key? Evidence from an fNIRS study
The Key Search Task (KST) is a neuropsychological
test that requires strategies for searching a lost key in an
imaginary field. This request may involve different cognitive
processes as mental imagery and navigation planning. This
study was aimed at investigating, by a twenty-channel functional
near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) system, the hemodynamic
response (i.e., oxygenated-hemoglobin (O2Hb) and
deoxygenated-hemoglobin (HHb) changes) of the prefrontal
cortex in navigation planning. A right ventrolateral prefrontal