Perseveration Found in a Human Drawing Task: Six-Fingered Hands Drawn by Patients with Right Anterior Insula and Operculum Damage

Table 1

Characteristics and neuropsychological results for patients in the present study.

Patient	Gender	Age	MMSE	BIT		Tumour grade	Hemiparalysis
				Total score^1	Number of petals^2
Six-finger drawing group
MM	F	37	—	140	9	III	+
IM	F	44	30	134	9	III	+
MN	F	43	28	87	9	III	+
SE	F	22	30	145	9	II	−
HK	F	24	27	142	9	II	−
ST	F	39	23	135	12	II	−
SY	M	40	28	143	9	III	−
OH	M	51	29	141	12	II	−
Five-finger drawing group
MA	F	32	26	123	9	III	+
AY	F	33	30	146	9	II	−
AMY	F	26	27	114	8	IV	−
KH	F	40	28	141	9	III	−
HE	F	55	30	146	9	II	−
HM	M	38	26	143	10	III	+
KM	F	30	28	145	9	IV	−

1Full score for the BIT is 146 and the cut-off score is 131.
2Nine is the correct number of petals.