Impaired estimation of word occurrence frequency in frontal lobe patients

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 635-641

  Angeles Jurado, M ^a   Junqué, Carme ^a   Pujol, Jesus ^b   Oliver, Bartomeu ^c   Vendrell, Pere ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Ctr de Ressonancia Magnetica   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Memory; Neuropsychology; Prefrontal; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0342981580     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00112-1     Document Type: Article

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