Brain, Vol. 112, No. 6, 1587-1598, 1989
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THE ORIGINS OF UTILIZATION BEHAVIOUR
1Psychology Department, National Hospital Queen Square, London 2Psychology Department, MRC Applied Psychology Unit Cambridge 3Department of Neurology, Atkinson Morley's Hospital Wimbledon 4Psychology Department St Andrews Hospital Northampton, UK
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Correspondence to Dr Tim Shallice, Psychology Department, National Hospital, Queen Square, London WCIN 3BG, UK
Utilization behaviour has previously been described clinically by Lhermitte (1983). An experimental investigation is reported of utilization behaviour in a patient with a localized inferior medial bifrontal lesion. The patient picked up and used irrelevant objects not only when placed directly in front of him—the procedure developed by Lhermitte—but also when he had been instructed to carry out other tasks and his attention had not been directed to the objects. The behaviour occurred most frequently in the brief intervals between tasks, and more often when auditory-verbal rather than visuomotor tasks were being performed. The results are interpreted within an information-processing model of frontal lobe function. A differentiation is made between two forms of utilization behaviour—an ‘incidental’ form, as exhibited by the patient, and an ‘induced’ form where it occurs only when Lhermitte's procedure is adopted.
Received August 12, 1988. Revised February 7, 1989. Accepted February 24, 1989.
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