Generation and recognition of abstract rules in different frontal lobe subgroups

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1924-1937

  Reverberi, Carlo ^a,b   D'Agostini, Serena ^c   Skrap, Miran ^c   Shallice, Tim ^a,d  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Frontal cortex; Hypothesis generation; Inductive reasoning; Thinking; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 24944488028     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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