The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the assessment of frontal function: A validation study with event related potentials

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 399-408

  Barceló, Francisco ^a   Sanz, Marta ^a   Molina, Vicente ^a   Rubia, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abstract reasoning; Attention; ERPs; Frontal function; WCST; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030954894     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00096-6     Document Type: Article

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