- Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) (BA 9/46) activation: attributed to working memory processes
- Parietal cortex (BA 7) activation: reflects attention to visual aspects of the task
- Caudate nucleus activation: Since activation in this region increased with increased problem difficulty, it is attributed to the planning and problem-solving process.
- Cerebellum activation: involved in remembering moves during a delay period
- Orbitofrontal cortex (BA 14) activation: associated with tasks involving guessing,
uncertainty, and the presence or absence of feedback

University of California, Davis

The level of rCBF in EXPT1 was compared to the averaged scans of the control conditions. This was used to study dynamic functional changes early on in the study. 
When CTRL was subtracted from EXPT1, significant activations were found in:
- mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (BA 9)
- orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) (BA 14)
- premotor cortex (BA 6)
- parietal lobe (BA 7 and 40) on the left
- caudate nucleus and cerebellum (lobule VI) bilaterally

rCBF Results - EXPT1 vs CTRL (TOL task)

Beauchamp, M., Dagher, A., Aston, J., & Doyon, J. (2003). Dynamic functional changes associated with cognitive skill learning of an adapted version of the Tower of London task. NeuroImage, 20(3), 1649-1660. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.07.003

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