The prefrontal cortex:
A) seems to encode emotional qualities associated with particular memories.
B) seems to play an important role in working memory.
C) encodes information about the location where a particular memory occurred.
D) plays a critical role in the ability to form memories of numerical concepts.

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The prefrontal cortex is known to be involved in working memory, which is the ability to hold information in the mind for short periods of time in order to use it for ongoing cognitive tasks.

The Prefrontal Cortex