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Utilization behavior: Clinical and theoretical approaches

Philippe Allain
Ghislaine Aubin
Valérie Chauviré
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Frédérique Etcharry-Bouyx
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Didier Le Gall
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Résumé

Lhermitte (1983) coined the term "utilization behavior" (UB) to define a neurobehavioral syndrome in which the visuo-tactile presentation of objects compels patients to grasp and use them, despite the fact that they have not been instructed to do so. The author suggested that UB was the consequence of frontal lobe damage. Thereafter, Shallice, Burgess, Schon, and Baxter (1989) questioned Lhermitte's (1983) procedure for eliciting UB, putting forward an alternative research methodology that led to differentiate two forms of UB: "induced" and "incidental." To date, there has been no direct comparison between these two procedures, nor have any other methodologies been used to explore this clinical sign, which is related to fundamental concepts such as free will and human autonomy. We investigated UB in 70 subjects (25 patients with frontal lobe lesions, 10 patients with posterior brain damage and 35 control subjects) using the methodologies of Lhermitte (1983) and Shallice et al. (1989), as well as an original "verbal generation" procedure. Our results show that the verbal generation procedure reveals UB effi ciently and that elicitation of this sign appears to be directly linked to the content of the task. We discuss the interpretation of UB in terms of an executive control defi cit. (JINS , 2010, 16 , 1-10.)

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halshs-00485344, version 1 (20-05-2010)

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Jérémy Besnard, Philippe Allain, Ghislaine Aubin, François Osiurak, Valérie Chauviré, et al.. Utilization behavior: Clinical and theoretical approaches. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2010, 16 (3), pp.453-462. ⟨halshs-00485344⟩
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