Different underlying impairments in decision-making following ventromedial and dorsolateral frontal lobe damage in humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-63

  Fellows, Lesley K ^a   Farah, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Gambling; Lesion; Reversal learning; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMBLING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 10944240454     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh108     Document Type: Article

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