title: Inhibitory attentional control in patients with frontal lobe damage.
abstract: The performance of a group of frontal lobe lesion and a group of frontal lobe dementia patients was compared with the performance of their respective matched normal control groups on two tests of inhibitory attentional control-the stop-signal reaction time task and a negative priming task. Both patient groups responded significantly slower than their respective normal control groups, but they showed only marginally significant selective impairments on the measures of inhibition. The data suggest that the specific inhibitory processes evaluated by these two tests are, in general, spared in patients with focal frontal lobe lesions or frontal lobe degeneration.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Room 5C205, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1440, Bethesda, MD 20892-1440, USA.
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dimitrov
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakic
authors.forename: Jordan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Elpern-Waxman
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Granetz
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: O'Grady
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Phipps
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Milne
authors.forename: Gordon D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Logan
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hasher
authors.forename: Jordan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grafman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy / Q000473:pathology; D001288:Attention; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests