Guest guest Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Mike, Your assumption that each of these functions is localized in a specific area probably is not very true. There are, for most of these fucntions, various locations that are involved, and there are linkages between them that are also important. If you really want to put together a list like this, start searching the internet for brain areas and each of these tasks. A fairly simple example that I can tell you without much looking around is digit-span/working memory. There are areas in the pre-frontal cortex, primarily the dorsolateral PFC and primarily on the left side, so around F7 and F3; but there are also areas in the posterior parietal lobe, further back from P3 and P4 that are involved. And there are other areas that may or may not be involved. When a client listens to you produce a series of digits one second apart and remembers the ones you have previously said while hearing the new ones and then repeats the list accurately, there are a number of functions involved. There must be a screening out of competing/interfering stimuli. There must be a hearing and recognition of the digits themselves. There must be some kind of memory function that appears not to access short-term or long-term memory in the hippocampus--a kind of looping of the information to keep it available. There must be the ability to produce output from what is heard and remembered so you can actually tell that the client remembered the list. Each of these is a different function handled in different areas, and many of them require disparate areas to work together and share information. Pete In regard to WISC-III these are the subtests for which I want to find their corresponding training sites. Any help is welcomed.. Performance Picture CompletionDigit Symbol - CodingBlock DesignMatrix ReasoningPicture ArrangementSymbol searchObject assembly Verbal VocabularySimilaritiesArithmeticDigit SpanInformationComprehensionLetter - Number Sequencing Grouped Verbal ComprehensionPerceptual OrganisationWorking MemoryProcessing speed For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month. -- Van Deusen pvdtlc@...http://www.brain-trainer.com305/433-3160The Learning Curve, Inc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Mike, Your assumption that each of these functions is localized in a specific area probably is not very true. There are, for most of these fucntions, various locations that are involved, and there are linkages between them that are also important. If you really want to put together a list like this, start searching the internet for brain areas and each of these tasks. A fairly simple example that I can tell you without much looking around is digit-span/working memory. There are areas in the pre-frontal cortex, primarily the dorsolateral PFC and primarily on the left side, so around F7 and F3; but there are also areas in the posterior parietal lobe, further back from P3 and P4 that are involved. And there are other areas that may or may not be involved. When a client listens to you produce a series of digits one second apart and remembers the ones you have previously said while hearing the new ones and then repeats the list accurately, there are a number of functions involved. There must be a screening out of competing/interfering stimuli. There must be a hearing and recognition of the digits themselves. There must be some kind of memory function that appears not to access short-term or long-term memory in the hippocampus--a kind of looping of the information to keep it available. There must be the ability to produce output from what is heard and remembered so you can actually tell that the client remembered the list. Each of these is a different function handled in different areas, and many of them require disparate areas to work together and share information. Pete In regard to WISC-III these are the subtests for which I want to find their corresponding training sites. Any help is welcomed.. Performance Picture CompletionDigit Symbol - CodingBlock DesignMatrix ReasoningPicture ArrangementSymbol searchObject assembly Verbal VocabularySimilaritiesArithmeticDigit SpanInformationComprehensionLetter - Number Sequencing Grouped Verbal ComprehensionPerceptual OrganisationWorking MemoryProcessing speed For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month. -- Van Deusen pvdtlc@...http://www.brain-trainer.com305/433-3160The Learning Curve, Inc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Mihail, It's nice to have a general idea of areas of the brain that are associated with different tests or subtests. This is one of the reasons that I love the search engines on the internet. I usually use Google. If I wanted to search for information regarding picture completion; I would enter "region of the brain associated with picture completion" and surprise 185,000 references are available. You will find all sorts of complexities and gender differences, etc. when you search different topics. My preference is to search for regions of the brain that are associated with presenting symptoms and then identify those areas in the TLC or QEEG assessments and see what anomalies may exist and use this, in part, for treatment planning. JD Elder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Mihail, It's nice to have a general idea of areas of the brain that are associated with different tests or subtests. This is one of the reasons that I love the search engines on the internet. I usually use Google. If I wanted to search for information regarding picture completion; I would enter "region of the brain associated with picture completion" and surprise 185,000 references are available. You will find all sorts of complexities and gender differences, etc. when you search different topics. My preference is to search for regions of the brain that are associated with presenting symptoms and then identify those areas in the TLC or QEEG assessments and see what anomalies may exist and use this, in part, for treatment planning. JD Elder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2007 Report Share Posted November 24, 2007 , I just looked up Toomin's site and it's interesting that all the problems he talks about seem to be located in prefrontal, frontal, or temporal regions. And if you don't have those problems, he says you probably don't have a problem with your brain. I'm puzzled. Liz > > > > In regard to WISC-III these are the subtests for which I want to > find their corresponding training sites. Any help is welcomed.. > > > > Performance > > Picture Completion > > Digit Symbol - Coding > > Block Design > > Matrix Reasoning > > Picture Arrangement > > Symbol search > > Object assembly > > > > Verbal > > Vocabulary > > Similarities > > Arithmetic > > Digit Span > > Information > > Comprehension > > Letter - Number Sequencing > > > > Grouped > > Verbal Comprehension > > Perceptual Organisation > > Working Memory > > Processing speed > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good > this month. > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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