Random number generation in neglect patients reveals enhanced response stereotypy, but no neglect in number space

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 276-279

  Loetscher, Tobias ^a   Brugger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Numerical cognition; Order information; Sequential memory; Spatial attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NEGLECT; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL COGNITION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; STEREOTYPY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 57249095867     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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