TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1992//
TI  - Impulsivity, risk-taking, and the ability to synthesize fragmented information after frontal lobectomy
JO  - Neuropsychologia
A1  - Miller, Lisa A.
SP  - 69
EP  - 79
VL  - 30
IS  - 1
N2  - Patients with unilateral frontal- or temporal-lobe excisions and control subjects performed a cognitive risk-taking task in which target items (line-drawings or words) had to be guessed on the basis of partial-information clues. For each item, subjects chose to guess with either one, two, three, or all four clues, for a possible reward of 30, 20, 10, or 5 points, respectively. Two clue-presentation conditions were used to allow the differentiation of risk-taking from impulsivity. Whereas no group obtained high risk-taking scores, patients with frontal-lobe lesions demonstrated impulsive behaviour when manual responses were required. Only the left frontal-lobe group was impaired at solving the clues.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-3932
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -