“…(e.g. Alvarado & Bachvallier, 2005;Astur & Constable, 2004;Driscoll et al, 2003;Hanlon et al, 2003Hanlon et al, , 2005Hanlon et al, , 2011Meltzer et al, 2008, Moses, Ostreicher, Rosenbaum & Ryan, 2008Moses et al, 2009;Rickard & Grafman, 1998;Rickard, Verfaellie & Grafman, 2006;Reed & Squire, 1996;Ostreicher, Ryan, Moses & Rosenbaum, 2010;Saksida et al, 2007). The transverse patterning task is structurally analogous to the childhood game "rock-paperscissors" (Rock crushes Scissors, Scissors cut Paper, Paper covers Rock), but uses novel stimuli (A, B, C) that have ambiguous meanings outside the context of their pairings (A beats B, B beats C, C beats A; or A+B-, B+C-, C+A-; Fig.…”