Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance based on location and size of neuroanatomical lesion in Vietnam veterans with penetrating head injury

Percept Mot Skills. 1990 Dec;71(3 Pt 2):1120-2. doi: 10.2466/pms.1990.71.3f.1120.

Abstract

We examined Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in a large group of brain-damaged patients and controls. No differences were found between patients with frontal lesions only and those with nonfrontal lesions. Patients with left dorsofrontal and anterior temporal lobe lesions committed the most perseverative errors. More analyses regarding requirements for information processing on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test are needed.

MeSH terms

  • Brain Damage, Chronic / diagnosis
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / physiopathology*
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / psychology
  • Brain Mapping
  • Discrimination Learning / physiology
  • Frontal Lobe / injuries*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neuropsychological Tests*
  • Veterans / psychology*
  • Vietnam
  • Wounds, Gunshot / diagnosis
  • Wounds, Gunshot / physiopathology*
  • Wounds, Gunshot / psychology