A case of 'task-switching acalculia'

Neurocase

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-40

  Domahs, Frank ^a,b   Benke, Thomas ^c   Delazer, Margarete ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Fact retrieval; Frontal lobe; Multiplication; Task set

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPREHENSION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL TASK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; SPEECH; STROKE PATIENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78751635684     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2010.487829     Document Type: Article

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