Assessment of executive functions in clinical settings: Problems and recommendations

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-183

  Miyake, Akira ^a   Emerson, Michael J ^a   Friedman, Naomi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent variable analysis; Tower of Hanoi or London task; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

COGNITION DISORDERS; FRONTAL LOBE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033642238     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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