Intelligence and executive functions in frontotemporal dementia

Recently (Roca et al. (2010), we used the relationship with general intelligence (Spearman’s g) to define two sets of frontal lobe or “executive” tests. For one group, including Wisconsin card sorting and verbal fluency, reduction in g entirely explained the deficits found in frontal patients. For a...

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Main Authors: Roca, María, Manes, Facundo, Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel, Watson, Peter, Ibáñez, Agustín, Thompson, Russell, Torralva, Teresa, Duncan, John
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Pergamon Press 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610016/