Abstract
'Feeling-of-doing' accuracy in a temporal ordering task in 33 patients with frontal lobe lesions and a matched control group was investigated. The temporal ordering task used word lists that had high, medium, or no semantic interrelatedness. Patients with frontal lobe lesions showed an impairment in temporal ordering across all three word lists. Both groups performed better on the lists with higher semantic interrelatedness. Patients with frontal lobe lesions overestimated their ability to order words accurately. On the less semantically interrelated lists, metamemory-judgment in patients with frontal lesions did not correlate with their performance. These results indicate that both temporal order judgment and metacognitive decisions about temporal order judgment are subserved by the prefrontal cortex and further clarifies the role of the frontal lobes in behavioral monitoring.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 353-364 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1998 |
Funding
* This research was supported in part by Grant PM91-0161 (Secretaría de Estado de Universidades e Investigación), and by Grant FPI (Generalitat de Catalunya) to M. Angeles Jurado. Address correspondence to: M. Angeles Jurado, Departament de Psiquiatria i Psicobiologia Clínica, Universitat de Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171, Barcelona 08035, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]. Accepted for publication: April, 1, 1998.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Neurology
- Clinical Psychology