Activation of the prefrontal cortex during the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test as measured by multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 70-76

  Sumitani, Satsuki ^a   Tanaka, Tsunehiko ^a   Tayoshi, Shin'Ya ^a   Ota, Koshi ^a   Kameoka, Naomi ^a   Ueno, Shu Ichi ^a   Ohmori, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Executive function; Laterality index; Near infrared spectroscopy; Prefrontal cortex; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SAMPLE SIZE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 33645965890     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091722     Document Type: Article

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