Neuroanatomical correlates of the Benton Facial Recognition Test and Judgment of Line Orientation Test

Daniel Tranel; Eduardo Vianna; Kenneth Manzel; Hanna Damasio; Thomas Grabowski

doi:10.1080/13803390802317542

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Neuroanatomical correlates of the Benton Facial Recognition Test and Judgment of Line Orientation Test

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Neuroanatomical correlates of the Benton Facial Recognition Test and Judgment of Line Orientation Test

Daniel Tranel, Eduardo Vianna, Kenneth Manzel, Hanna Damasio and Thomas Grabowski

Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, Vol.31(2), pp.219-233

02/03/2009

DOI: 10.1080/13803390802317542

PMCID: PMC2853018

PMID: 19051129

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Two of the most successful and widely used tests developed by Arthur Benton and colleagues are the Facial Recognition Test (FRT) and Judgment of Line Orientation Test (JLO), which probe visuoperceptual and visuospatial functions typically associated with right hemisphere structures, especially parietal, occipitoparietal, and occipitotemporal structures. Taking advantage of a large database of focal lesion patients (the Iowa Neurological Patient Registry), we used a new lesion-deficit mapping technique to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of FRT and JLO performance. For the FRT, there were 201 patients with relevant data; of these, 38 were impaired on the FRT, and failure was most strongly associated with lesions in the right posterior-inferior parietal and right ventral occipitotemporal (fusiform gyrus) areas. For the JLO, there were 181 patients with relevant data; of these, 23 were impaired on the JLO, and failure was most strongly associated with lesions in the right posterior parietal region. These findings put new empirical teeth in the localizing value of the FRT and JLO tests, and they extend and sharpen previous work that had pointed to right posterior structures as being important for FRT and JLO performance.

Visuospatial

Arthur Benton

Visuoperceptual

Right hemisphere

Lesion-deficit

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Title: Subtitle: Neuroanatomical correlates of the Benton Facial Recognition Test and Judgment of Line Orientation Test
Creators: Daniel Tranel - Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience , University of Iowa College of Medicine
Eduardo Vianna - Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience , University of Iowa College of Medicine
Kenneth Manzel - Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience , University of Iowa College of Medicine
Hanna Damasio - Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience , University of Iowa College of Medicine
Thomas Grabowski - Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience , University of Iowa College of Medicine
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, Vol.31(2), pp.219-233
DOI: 10.1080/13803390802317542
PMID: 19051129
PMCID: PMC2853018
NLM abbreviation: J Clin Exp Neuropsychol
ISSN: 1380-3395
eISSN: 1744-411X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Language: English
Date published: 02/03/2009
Academic Unit: Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984002596502771

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