Deciding how to decide: Ventromedial frontal lobe damage affects information acquisition in multi-attribute decision making

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 944-952

  Fellows, Lesley K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Executive function; Human, lesion; Prefrontal cortex; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LITERATURE; NOISE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33645078895     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl017     Document Type: Article

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