Estimating frontal and parietal involvement in cognitive estimation: a study of focal neurodegenerative diseases.

ABSTRACT: We often estimate an unknown value based on available relevant information, a process known as cognitive estimation. In this study, we assess the cognitive and neuroanatomic basis for quantitative estimation by examining deficits in patients with focal neurodegenerative disease in frontal and parietal cortex. Executive function and number knowledge are key components in cognitive estimation. Prefrontal cortex has been implicated in multilevel reasoning and planning processes, and parietal cortex has been associated with number knowledge required for such estimations. We administered the Biber cognitive estimation test (BCET) to assess cognitive estimation in 22 patients with prefrontal disease due to behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), to 17 patients with parietal disease d

SUBMITTER: Bisbing TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4454843 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature