Errors on the Trail Making Test Are Associated with Right Hemispheric Frontal Lobe Damage in Stroke Patients
Joint Authors
Wessel, K.
Kopp, Bruno
Rösser, Nina
Tabeling, Sandra
Stürenburg, Hans Jörg
de Haan, Bianca
Karnath, Hans-Otto
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-05-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Measures of performance on the Trail Making Test (TMT) are among the most popular neuropsychological assessment techniques.
Completion time on TMT-A is considered to provide a measure of processing speed, whereas completion time on TMT-B is considered to constitute a behavioral measure of the ability to shift between cognitive sets (cognitive flexibility), commonly attributed to the frontal lobes.
However, empirical evidence linking performance on the TMT-B to localized frontal lesions is mostly lacking.
Here, we examined the association of frontal lesions following stroke with TMT-B performance measures (i.e., completion time and completion accuracy measures) using voxel-based lesion-behavior mapping, with a focus on right hemispheric frontal lobe lesions.
Our results suggest that the number of errors, but not completion time on the TMT-B, is associated with right hemispheric frontal lesions.
This finding contradicts common clinical practice—the use of completion time on the TMT-B to measure cognitive flexibility, and it underscores the need for additional research on the association between cognitive flexibility and the frontal lobes.
Further work in a larger sample, including left frontal lobe damage and with more power to detect effects of right posterior brain injury, is necessary to determine whether our observation is specific for right frontal lesions.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kopp, Bruno& Rösser, Nina& Tabeling, Sandra& Stürenburg, Hans Jörg& de Haan, Bianca& Karnath, Hans-Otto…[et al.]. 2015. Errors on the Trail Making Test Are Associated with Right Hemispheric Frontal Lobe Damage in Stroke Patients. Behavioural Neurology،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kopp, Bruno…[et al.]. Errors on the Trail Making Test Are Associated with Right Hemispheric Frontal Lobe Damage in Stroke Patients. Behavioural Neurology No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-10.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Kopp, Bruno& Rösser, Nina& Tabeling, Sandra& Stürenburg, Hans Jörg& de Haan, Bianca& Karnath, Hans-Otto…[et al.]. Errors on the Trail Making Test Are Associated with Right Hemispheric Frontal Lobe Damage in Stroke Patients. Behavioural Neurology. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057528
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1057528