• DOI:10.1016/0028-3932(85)90023-5
Corpus ID: 31082509

Cognitive risk-taking after frontal or temporal lobectomy—II. The synthesis of phonemic and semantic information

@article{Miller1985CognitiveRA,
  title={Cognitive risk-taking after frontal or temporal lobectomy—II. The synthesis of phonemic and semantic information},
  author={Laurie Miller and B. Milner},
  journal={Neuropsychologia},
  year={1985},
  volume={23},
  pages={371-379}
}

• Laurie Miller, B. Milner
• Published 1985
• Psychology, Medicine
• Neuropsychologia

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… Expand

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