Frequency judgements of abstract designs by patients with diencephalic, temporal lobe or frontal lobe lesions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1387-1396

  Stanhope, Nicola ^a   Guinan, Elizabeth ^b   Kopelman, Michael D ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Div of Psychiat and Psychol U   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesic patients; Context memory; Frequency estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIENCEPHALON; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN MAPPING; DIENCEPHALON; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032445952     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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