Prefrontal cortex is critical for contextual processing: Evidence from brain lesions

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3002-3010

  Fogelson, Noa ^a,b   Shah, Mona ^a   Scabini, Donatella ^a   Knight, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context; Context positivity; EEG; P3b; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 70350700490     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp230     Document Type: Article

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