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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
We compared the reasoning performance of patients with frontal-variant frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with that of patients with temporal-variant FTLD and healthy controls. In a picture analogy task with a multiple-choice answer format, frontal-variant FTLD patients performed less accurately than temporal-variant FTLD patients, who in turn performed worse than healthy controls, when semantic and perceptual distractors were present among the answer choices. When the distractor answer choices were eliminated, frontal-variant patients showed relatively greater improvement in performance. Similar patient groups were tested with a relational-pattern reasoning task that included manipulations of one or two relations and both perceptual and semantic extraneous information. Frontal-variant patients showed performance deficits on all tasks relative to the other subject groups, especially when distracted. These results demonstrate that intact prefrontal cortex (PFC) is necessary for controlling interference from perceptual and semantic distractors in order to reason from relational structure.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0028-3932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2020-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Cognition, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Cognition Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Control Groups, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Dementia, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Frontal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Functional Laterality, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Memory Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Models, Neurological, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Prefrontal Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Problem Solving, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Recognition (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Reward, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Semantics, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Task Performance and Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Temporal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:18355881-Visual Perception
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Distraction during relational reasoning: the role of prefrontal cortex in interference control.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for BrainHealth, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75235, USA. daniel.krawczyk@utdallas.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural