Parietal damage impairs learning of a visuomotor tracking skill

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 79; no. Pt A; pp. 106 - 112
• Main Authors: Cavaco, Sara, Anderson, Steven W., Chen, Kuan-Hua, Teixeira-Pinto, Armando, Damasio, Hanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2015
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis of Variance; Brain Injuries - complications; Brain Injuries - pathology; Brain Mapping; Female; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Learning Disorders - etiology; Lesion studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Memory; Middle Aged; Motor Skills - physiology; Neurologic Examination; Neuropsychological Tests; Parietal lobe; Parietal Lobe - pathology; Reaction Time; Skill learning; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Lesion studies; Parietal lobe; Memory; Skill learning

This study evaluated the consequences of damage to the parietal lobe for learning a visuomotor tracking skill. Thirty subjects with a single unilateral brain lesion (13 with and 17 without parietal damage) and 23 demographically comparable healthy subjects performed the Rotary Pursuit task. For each...