Anita Dani, Elaine Al Quraan
Investigating research students' perceptions about statistics and its impact on their choice of research approach
Heliyon
prefrontal cortex known involved performing complex cognitive tasks requiring reasoning planning decisionmaking neuropsychological evidence also supports idea prefrontal cortex generally involved encoding retrieving complex events action narrative knowledge patients frontal lobe damage reported difficulty processing different aspects narrative representations figurative moral meaning syntactic features inference generation present study examined story processing 17 patients frontal lobe lesions compared performance 7 amnesic patients 17 normal controls two stories presented using two slightly different processing demands order assess subjects ability draw inferences online course comprehension later retrieval although patients impaired story memory patients frontal lobe lesions showed pattern deficit early stage story comprehension specifically involved ability reconstruct sequential links among events extract inferential knowledge text encoding amnesic patients severely impaired recalling story semantic units including single events larger narrative constituents well event recognition task consequently unable establish inferential relations among events thus global sequential structure stories retrieval contrast difficulty extracting inferential knowledge story comprehension basis readily available information study shows damage different cortical regions may induce impairments various levels story processing