Education level moderates learning on two versions of the Iowa gambling task

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1063-1068

  Davis, Caroline ^a   Fox, John ^b   Patte, Karen ^a   Curtis, Claire ^a   Strimas, Rachel ^a   Reid, Caroline ^a   McCool, Catherine ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Decision making; Gender; Neuropsychological tests; Prefrontal cortex; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IOWA GAMBLING TASK; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 55349133431     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617708081204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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