Hidden-figures-test performance: Lasting effects of unilateral penetrating head injury and transient effects of bilateral cingulotomy

Abstract Thurstone's Hidden Figures Test was given to two different groups of patients in a search for clues to the variables that influence early and late changes in behavior after cerebral lesion. Experiment I studied the effects of penetrating head injury in 20-yr veterans of the Korean Campaign and indicated that lasting impairment on Thurstone's test is not a necessary consequence of all unilateral cerebral pathology. Instead, performance reflected the size of the left- or right-hemisphere lesion. Experiment II explored both the short-term and long-term effects of cingulotomy performed to relieve pain or psychiatric disorder. Here, there was a transient drop in the Hidden-Figures-Test scores of patients over 30 yr old but not under 30.

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