[2] Present research suggests that it is involved in strategic processes in memory recall and various executive functions.

During human evolution, the functions in this area resulted in its expansion relative to the rest of the brain.

In humans, on the medial aspect of the hemisphere it is bounded ventrally by the superior rostral sulcus.

[4] Area 10 lies underneath the air filled frontal sinus of the skull, which has limited electrophysiology research until 2009.

Its connections through the extreme capsule link it to the auditory and multisensory areas of the superior temporal sulcus.

The uncinate fasciculus connects it with the amygdala, temporopolar proisocortex and anterior most part of the superior temporal gyrus.

"[2] It has been proposed that due to this connectivity that it can "play a major role in the highest level of integration of information coming from visual, auditory, and somatic sensory systems to achieve amodal, abstract, conceptual interpretation of the environment .. and may be the anatomical basis for the suggested role of the rostral prefrontal cortex in influencing abstract information processing and the integration of the outcomes of multiple cognitive operations".

"[3] Cranial endocasts taken from the inside of the skull of Homo floresiensis show an expansion in the frontal polar region suggesting enlargement in its Brodmann's area 10.

[3] Koechlin & Hyafil have proposed that processing of 'cognitive branching' is the core function of the frontopolar cortex.

[11] Cognitive branching enables a previously running task to be maintained in a pending state for subsequent retrieval and execution upon completion of the ongoing one.

Many of our complex behaviors and mental activities require simultaneous engagement of multiple tasks, and they suggest the anterior prefrontal cortex may perform a domain-general function in these scheduling operations.

Thus, the frontopolar cortex shares features with the central executive in Baddeley's model of working memory.