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Patterns of Cognitive Test Performance As Functions of the Lateral Localization of Cerebral Abnormalities in the Temporal Lobe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Victor Meyer  and
H. Gwynne Jones
Victor Meyer
Affiliation:
Guy's-Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit and Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
H. Gwynne Jones
Affiliation:
Guy's-Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit and Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
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Various investigations into the effects of brain injury on psychological test performance (Weisenburg and McBride, 1935; Patterson and Zangwill, 1944; Anderson, 1951; McFie and Piercy, 1952; Bauer and Becka, 1954; Milner, 1954) suggest the overall conclusion that patients with left hemisphere lesions are relatively poor at verbal tasks, while those with right-sided lesions do worst at practical tasks, particularly the manipulation of spatial or spatio-temporal relationships. Heilbfun's (1956) study confirmed that verbal deficits result from left-sided lesions but his left and right hemisphere groups produced almost identical scores on spatial tests. In so far as these workers paid attention to the specific sites of the lesions, their findings indicate that the pattern of test performance is a function of the hemisphere in which the lesion occurs rather than of its specific locus.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 433 , October 1957 , pp. 758 - 772
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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