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

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 parie...

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Published in:Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2009-02, Vol.31 (2), p.219-233
Main Authors: Tranel, Daniel, Vianna, Eduardo, Manzel, Kenneth, Damasio, Hanna, Grabowski, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Arthur Benton
Biological and medical sciences
Brain Diseases - pathology
Brain Diseases - physiopathology
Brain Mapping
Face
Female
Functional Laterality
Humans
Judgment - physiology
Lesion-deficit
Linear Models
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology
Orientation - physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Photic Stimulation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Right hemisphere
Techniques and methods
Visuoperceptual
Visuospatial
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1380-3395
1744-411X
DOI:10.1080/13803390802317542