The differing roles of the frontal cortex in fluency tests

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2202-2214

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energization; Fluency tests; Fluid intelligence; Frontal cortex; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUENCY TEST; FRONTAL CORTEX; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863207601     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws142     Document Type: Article

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