Discrimination, reversal, and shift learning in Huntington's disease: Mechanisms of impaired response selection

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1359-1374

  Lawrence, A D ^a   Sahakian, B J ^b   Rogers, R D ^a   Hodges, J R ^b,c   Robbins, T W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Basal ganglia; Learned irrelevance; Perseveration; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSEVERATION; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032873391     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00035-4     Document Type: Article

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