Impaired skill learning in patients with severe closed-head injury as demonstrated by the serial reaction time (SRT) task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 304-315

  Vakil, Eli ^a   Kraus, Adi ^a   Bor, Batya ^b,c   Groswasser, Zeev ^b,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Closed head injury; Serial reaction time; Skill learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERROR; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036921446     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00515-8     Document Type: Article

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