When "happy" means "sad": Neuropsychological evidence for the right prefrontal cortex contribution to executive semantic processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 896-904

  Samson, Dana ^a   Connolly, Catherine ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive function; Prefrontal cortex; Right hemisphere; Selection; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMOTIONS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 33845666972     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.08.023     Document Type: Article

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