A role for right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in reasoning about indeterminate relations

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2790-2797

  Goel, Vinod ^a,b   Stollstorff, Melanie ^a   Nakic, Marina ^c   Knutson, Kris ^c   Grafman, Jordan ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal lobes; Hemispheric asymmetry; Neuroimaging; Reasoning; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 70249145763     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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