Sentences with phrase «frontal lobe tasks»

The unity and diversity of EF and their contributions to complex frontal lobe tasks: A latent variable analysis

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Reduced cortical thickness: Hong and colleagues found reduced cortical (the outermost part of the brain) thickness in internet - addicted teen boys (Hong 2013), and Yuan et al found reduced cortical thickness in the frontal lobe of online gaming addicts (late adolescent males and females) correlated with impairment of a cognitive task (Yuan 2013).

First, he inflicted injuries in two parts of infant rats» brains: the frontal lobe, which controls motor function and the ability to plan and execute tasks, and the parietal lobe, which influences spatial functions.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

These regions in the frontal lobe are known to control eye movements in tasks like reading.

Housed in the frontal lobes, they help students plan, start, oversee, and finish tasks big and small.

For example, damage to the frontal lobes can affect emotional responses to social stimuli [20][21][22] and performance on theory of mind tasks.