Developmental changes in real life decision making: Performance on a gambling task previously shown to depend on the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-279

  Crone, Eveline A ^a   Van Der Molen, Maurits W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 2642530366     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326942dn2503_2     Document Type: Article

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