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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797350803321

Autore

MacPherson Sarah

Titolo

Handbook of frontal lobe assessment  / / Sarah E. MacPherson, Sergio Della Sala ; with Simon R. Cox, Alessandra Girardi, Matthew H. Iveson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-179932-7

0-19-164830-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 p.)

Disciplina

612.825

Soggetti

Frontal lobes

Frontal lobes - Diseases - Diagnosis

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

8.1 Emotion identification9 Social decision-making; 9.1 Implicit Association Task; 9.2 Iowa Gambling Task; 9.3 Moral Decision-Making Task; 9.4 Ultimatum Game; 10 Theory of mind; 10.1 Animations Task; 10.2 Faux Pas Task; 10.3 Judgment of Preference Task; 10.4 Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task; 10.5 Cartoons Task; 10.6 Theory of Mind Stories; Appendix: Summary Table; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There are several tests used in clinical practice and research worldwide that have been devised to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain. Anatomical localisation has revealed that the frontal lobes can be divided into sub-regions with different functional domains. As a result, a number of authors working in the frontal lobe literature have made a case for patients with frontal lobe damage to be considered in their distinct subgroups, ratherthan considered together in one unitary group. As a result, it is important for clinicians and researchers to be made aware of the