1993/03/01 by Laura H. Goldstein, Sophie Bernard, P. B. C. Fenwick +2 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Neuroscience · #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction #Motor Control and Adaptation
paper · doi:10.1136/jnnp.56.3.274
openalex publication_date 1993/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Following a 5 cm left frontal lobectomy for the removal of a mixed astrocytoma-oligodendroglioma, a 51 year old right handed man showed a marked dissociation between his performance on standard neuropsychological tests and his everyday behaviour. In contrast to his intact neuropsychological test performance, he was impaired on a test of "strategy application" which requires goal articulation, plan specification, self-monitoring, and evaluation of outcomes, as well as the establishment of mental "markers" to trigger specific behaviour. Strategy application disorder can therefore be produced by a unilateral circumscribed frontal lobe lesions.