A study of the performance of patients with frontal lobe lesions in a financial planning task

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1805-1822

  Goel, Vinod ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^b   Tajik, Jinous ^a   Gana, Sheldon ^a   Danto, David ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information processing theory; Planning; Prefrontal cortex; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0030860958     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.10.1805     Document Type: Article

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