Disentangling the prefrontal network for rule selection by means of a non-verbal variant of the wisconsin card sorting test

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1734-1743

  Specht, Karsten ^a,b,c   Lie, Chuh Hyoun ^c,d,e   Shah, Nadim Jon ^c   Fink, Gereon R ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Executive system; FMRI; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149155860     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20637     Document Type: Article

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