Journal ArticleDOI
Specific impairments of planning
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
An information-processing model is outlined that predicts that performance on non-routine tasks can be impaired independently of performance on routine tasks, related to views on frontal lobe functions, particularly those of Luria.Abstract:
An information-processing model is outlined that predicts that performance on non-routine tasks can be impaired independently of performance on routine tasks. The model is related to views on frontal lobe functions, particularly those of Luria. Two methods of obtaining more rigorous tests of the model are discussed. One makes use of ideas from artificial intelligence to derive a task heavily loaded on planning abilities. A group of patients with left anterior lesions has a specific deficit on the task. Subsidiary investigations support the inference that this is a planning impairment.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Memory, amnesia, and frontal lobe dysfunction
TL;DR: Evidence concerning the influence of frontal lobe pathology on amnesic disorders is reviewed, different interpretations of this evidence are discussed, and research from human and animal neuropsychology as well as cognitive psychology is drawn on in an attempt to clarify the role of frontal damage in the amnesi syndrome.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dissociating executive mechanisms of task control following frontal lobe damage and Parkinson's disease
Robert D. Rogers,Barbara J. Sahakian,John R. Hodges,Charles E. Polkey,Christopher Kennard,Trevor W. Robbins +5 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that while both left and right frontal cortical areas are involved in the organization of cognitive and motor processes in situations involving novel task demands, only the left frontal cortex isinvolved in the dynamic reconfiguring between already-established task-sets, and specifically, that it is the site of an executive mechanism responsible for the modulation of exogenous task-set activity.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dual-task performance in dysexecutive and nondysexecutive patients with a frontal lesion.
TL;DR: In this paper, patients with defined frontal lobe lesions were assigned to one of two groups based on whether they showed a behaviorally assessed dysexecutive syndrome or were behaviorally normal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Assessment of neuropsychological function through use of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery: performance in 4- to 12-year-old children.
Monica Luciana,Charles A. Nelson +1 more
TL;DR: Children's performance on subtasks from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery (CANTAB) is described and findings indicated that several aspects of frontal lobe function are not functionally mature by the age of 12 years.
Journal Article
Executive Function in Education: From Theory to Practice.
TL;DR: Meltzer et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the challenges of identifying and treating executive function problems in the classroom and discuss strategies that address these problems in a teacher-student setting.
References
More filters
Book
Human Problem Solving
TL;DR: The aim of the book is to advance the understanding of how humans think by putting forth a theory of human problem solving, along with a body of empirical evidence that permits assessment of the theory.
Journal ArticleDOI
Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.
TL;DR: Tested the 2-process theory of detection, search, and attention presented by the current authors (1977) in a series of experiments and demonstrated the qualitative difference between 2 modes of information processing: automatic detection and controlled search.
Book
Higher cortical functions in man
TL;DR: Among the authors' patients was a bookkeeper with a severe form of sensory aphasia who could still draw up the annual balance sheet in spite of severe disturbances of speech and although he was unable to remember the names of his subordinates and used to refer to them incorrectly.
Book ChapterDOI
Attention to action: willed and automatic control of behavior
Donald A. Norman,Tim Shallice +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter proposes a theoretical framework structured around the notion of a set of active schemas, organized according to the particular action sequences of which they are a part, awaiting the appropriate set of conditions so that they can become selected to control action.