Dissociation of working memory from decision making within the human prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 428-437

  Bechara, Antoine ^a,c   Damasio, Hanna ^a,b   Tranel, Daniel ^a   Anderson, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Control of interference; Decision making; Delay tasks; Disinhibition; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Gambling tasks; Orbitofrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0031984083     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-01-00428.1998     Document Type: Article

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