Computational models inform clinical science and assessment: An application to category learning in striatal-damaged patients

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-122

  Maddox, W Todd ^a   Vincent Filoteo, J ^b   Zeithamova, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Executive function; Huntington's disease; Modeling; Parkinson's disease; Striatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949874502     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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