Differential effects of frontal-lobe lesions on cognitive estimation and spatial memory

Neuropsychologia. 1984;22(6):697-705. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(84)90096-4.

Abstract

Patients with unilateral frontal- or temporal-lobe excisions and normal control subjects were tested on the recall of objects and of their location in an array. An incidental-learning situation was used, in which the task was presented as a test of the ability to estimate the prices of the objects. Patients with right frontal-lobe lesions were the only group impaired on price estimation, but a correlation was obtained between error-score in price estimation and lesion-size for the left frontal-lobe group. In contrast to patients with extensive right hippocampal excisions, both frontal-lobe groups were accurate on location-recall when tested immediately and again 24 hr later.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Cognition / physiology*
  • Epilepsies, Partial / surgery
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / physiopathology*
  • Frontal Lobe / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Memory / physiology*
  • Memory, Short-Term / physiology
  • Mental Recall / physiology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Orientation / physiology*
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual / physiology
  • Postoperative Complications / physiopathology
  • Psychosurgery
  • Retention, Psychology / physiology
  • Space Perception / physiology*
  • Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Temporal Lobe / surgery