Frontal and parietal participation in problem solving in the Tower of London: fMRI and computational modeling of planning and high-level perception

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1668-1682

  Newman, Sharlene D ^a   Carpenter, Patricia A ^a   Varma, Sashank ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4CAPS; Computational modeling; fMRI; Planning; Problem solving; Spatial working memory; Tower of London

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENUATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PLANNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0042344810     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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