Frontal subregions mediating Elevator Counting task performance

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3679-3682

  MacPherson, Sarah E ^a,b   Turner, Martha S ^a,b   Bozzali, Marco ^c,d   Cipolotti, Lisa ^b,e   Shallice, Tim ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^f SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elevator Counting task; Frontal lobes; Sustained attention; Test of Everyday Attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATIENT CODING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77957315354     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.033     Document Type: Article

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