“…The PFC is widely observed to be functionally involved in deception (Abe et al, 2006;Ito et al, 2012;Karton, Rinne, & Bachmann, 2014;Phan, Magalhaes, Ziemlewicz, Fitzgerald, Green, & Smith, 2005;Spence, Kaylor-Hughes, Farrow, & Wilkinson, 2008;. As deception is considered a higherordered mental function, it is not uncommon for prefrontal executive functions to be engaged (Babkirk et al, 2015;Lerman, 2020;Sip et al, 2010). The executive function comprises of three distinct processes, namely working memory, response inhibition and task switching (Miyake et al, 2000).…”