Neuropsychological assessment of executive functions in traumatic brain injury: Hot and cold components.
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Neuropsychological assessment of executive functions in traumatic brain injury: hot and cold components
The present study compared decision-making processing between patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and healthy controls. The study also sought to identify dissociations in the frequency of deficits in executive functions (EF) tasks that mainly assess decision making (DM; hot component) and inhibition (cold component) following TBI. The sample was composed of 16 postTBI adults aged between...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychology & Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1983-3288,1984-3054
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2012.2.08