TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Cognitive risk-taking after frontal or temporal lobectomy--II. The synthesis of phonemic and semantic information
JO  - Neuropsychologia
A1  - Miller, L.
A1  - Milner, B.
SP  - 371
EP  - 379
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
N2  - Patients with unilateral cerebral excisions and control subjects performed two tasks in which target words had to be guessed on the basis of either phonemic or semantic partial-information clues. Each cumulatively provided clue was assigned successively lower point-value, these points being risked whenever the subject responded. Patients with frontal-lobe excisions chose to make a guess after seeing only one clue more often than did a combined group of subjects without frontal-lobe damage, but this guessing-score was also related to extent of right temporal-lobe removal. Patients with left temporal-lobe or left frontal-lobe lesions had difficulty solving the verbal clues, occasionally failing to recognize that a response generated in the context of one clue satisfied all the clues.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-3932
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -