Distractibility during selection-for-action: Differential deficits in Huntington's disease and following frontal lobe damage

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1137-1147

  Aron, Adam R ^a   Sahakian, Barbara J ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Lateral frontal cortex; Reaching; Selective attention; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTIVE INHIBITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0038739303     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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