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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01032/full?
Glenda Andrews1*,
Graeme S. Halford2,
Mark Chappell2,
Annick Maujean3 and
David H. K. Shum2
- 1Behavioural Basis of Health Program,
Griffith Health Institute, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith
University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
- 2Behavioural Basis of Health Program,
Griffith Health Institute, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith
University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- 3Centre for National Research on
Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), Griffith Health
Institute, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, QLD, Australia
Planning on the 4-disk version of the Tower of London (TOL4) was
examined in stroke patients and unimpaired controls. Overall TOL4
solution scores indicated impaired planning in the frontal stroke but
not non-frontal stroke patients. Consistent with the claim that
processing the relations between current states, intermediate states,
and goal states is a key process in planning, the domain-general
relational complexity metric was a good indicator of the experienced
difficulty of TOL4 problems. The relational complexity metric shared
variance with task-specific metrics of moves to solution and search
depth. Frontal stroke patients showed impaired planning compared to
controls on problems at all three complexity levels, but at only two of
the three levels of moves to solution, search depth and goal ambiguity.
Non-frontal stroke patients showed impaired planning only on the most
difficult quaternary-relational and high search depth problems. An
independent measure of relational processing (viz., Latin square task)
predicted TOL4 solution scores after controlling for stroke status and
location, and executive processing (Trail Making Test).
The findings
suggest that planning involves a domain-general capacity for relational
processing that depends on the frontal brain regions.
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