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| Research article summary (published 30 Jan 2002): |
Automatic and controlled verbal-information processing in patients with frontal lobe lesions.
Full Abstract
The selectivity of frontal lobe lesion effects in the domains of verbal-information processing has not been well established. The authors hypothesized that capacity-limited controlled processing would be more impaired than automatic processing in frontal lobe patients (FLPs). Fifteen FLPs were compared with 2 matched control groups:
14 posterior-lesion patients and 15 normal controls. Both behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures were collected. Results suggest that both automatic and controlled processing were affected by frontal lobe lesions. ERP results indicated that the main dificulty for the FLPs was in the perceptual stage of information processing. This rather unexpected result may be explained by a basic difficulty of FLPs in attending to a new stimulus in order to process it.
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Author information
Author/s: Birnboim, Smadar (S); Breznitz, Zvia (Z); Pratt, Hillel (H); Aharon, Yehudit (Y);
Affiliation: Laboratory for Neurocognitive Research, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. smadarb@research.haifa.ac.il
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Genetic, social, and general psychology monographs (Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Feb; vol 128 (issue 1) : pp 29-46
Dates: Created 2002/05/17; Completed 2002/12/04; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12017187, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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