Relationships between executive function, working memory, and decision‐making on the Iowa Gambling Task: Evidence from ventromedial patients, dorsolateral patients, and normal subjects

The results of previous studies are inconsistent in regard to the relationship between the Iowa Gambling Task ( IGT ), working‐memory ( WM ), and executive tasks, and whether these cognitive processes could be considered as mechanisms underlying a decision‐making deficit. Moreover, the relationship between the IGT and executive measures is examined based on a limited number of executive tasks, within different populations showing diffuse damage....