Ventromedial frontal lobe damage disrupts the accuracy, but not the speed, of value-based preference judgments

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1536-1542

  Henri Bhargava, Alexandre ^a   Simioni, Alison ^a   Fellows, Lesley K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Frontal lobe function; Neuroeconomics; Neuropsychology; Orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE INJURY; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANDSCAPE; MALE; PUPPY; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VEGETABLE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84861225519     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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