The California Card Sorting Test may dissociate verbal and non-verbal concept formation abilities.
Most neuropsychological measures of executive function provide only global indices of performance and are relatively insensitive to lateralized dysfunction. The present paper presents a right temporal lobectomy patient whose performance indicates that the California Card Sorting Test, a new measure of executive function, may dissociate verbal and non-verbal concept formation abilities. This case highlights the potential research and clinical value of this test compared to that of existing tests of executive function.
Learning Services-Rocky Mountain Region, Lakewood, Colorado, USA.
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Crouch
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Greve
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Brooks
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