Increased prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response is associated with better strategy formation and execution times in healthy males

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2494-2499

  Bitsios, Panos ^a   Giakoumaki, Stella G ^a   Theou, Katerina ^a   Frangou, Sophia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CANTAB; Executive function; Prefrontal function; Sensorimotor gating; Strategic processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; STARTLE REACTION; THINKING;

EID: 33745958262     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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