The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deception when remembering neutral and emotional events

▶ Evidence for how the DLPFC contributes to different types of deception is limited. ▶ We used fMRI to explore the neural basis of lying about neutral and emotional events. ▶ The DLPFC plays a critical role in the executive aspects of deception. ▶ The DLPFC functions in lying, regardless of the emotional valence of memory content.