Conceptual proposition selection and the LIFG: Neuropsychological evidence from a focal frontal group

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1652-1663

  Robinson, Gail ^a   Shallice, Tim ^b,c   Bozzali, Marco ^d,e   Cipolotti, Lisa ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic aphasia; Language generation; Neuropsychology; Prefrontal cortex; Verbal response selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPEECH RATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77952541646     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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