“…Patients are less successful in learning to perform familiar tasks in novel (compensatory) ways (Diller, 1962;Gardner, 1975;Joseph, 1997), and more insistent on using nonfunctional, familiar approaches (Damasio, 1994) after right-sided lesions from posterior tumor (O'dell et al, 1998), ischemic infarction (Macciocchi et al, 1988), ruptured aneurysm (Clinchot et al, 1997) and CVA (Alexander, 1994;Joseph, 1997;Scranton et al, 1970;Ween et al, 1996), even at 3-24-month follow-ups (Cherney et al, 2001;Chester and McLaren, 1989;Jehkonen et al, 2000;Katz et al, 1999;Kinsella et al, 1993;Robertson et al, 1997;Schutz, 2002;Stone et al, 1993). Moreover, in right CVA, the least successful accommodations are made in the presence of posterior association cortex lesions (Damasio, 1994;Gordon et al, 1978;Heilman, 1999b;Prigatano and Wong, 1999;Saecki et al, 1994) or nonverbal perceptual deficits (Jongbloed, 1986, reviewing 33 studies) such as somatosensory loss (Patel et al, 2000;Reding and Potes, 1988;Sterzi et al, 1993), left neglect (Cassidy et al, 2001;Denes et al, 1982;Fullerton et al, 1988;Hier et al, 1983;Katz et al, 1999;Pedersen et al, 1996;Ring et al, 1997), topographical disorientation (Kwakkel et al, 1996;Sze et al, 2000), and constructional aprax...…”