TY - JOUR
T1 - Recollection and familiarity components of recognition
T2 - effect of side of mesio-temporal damage
AU - Lombardi, Maria Giovanna
AU - Fadda, Lucia
AU - Serra, Laura
AU - Di Paola, Margherita
AU - Caltagirone, Carlo
AU - Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - We investigated the memory performance of three patients with unilateral mesio-temporal lobe damage with the aim of evaluating the roles of the left and right hemispheres in recollection and familiarity. Consistent with the “Material Specificity Hypothesis”, the right brain-damaged individual was selectively poor on recollection and familiarity tests for faces. Conversely, left-lesioned patients were severely deficient in recollection and familiarity of verbal material but mildly deficient on visual-spatial tests. This partially unexpected finding is interpreted in light of the ability of humans to verbally recode almost any material, thus giving rise to left-hemisphere effects for nominally nonverbal stimuli.
AB - We investigated the memory performance of three patients with unilateral mesio-temporal lobe damage with the aim of evaluating the roles of the left and right hemispheres in recollection and familiarity. Consistent with the “Material Specificity Hypothesis”, the right brain-damaged individual was selectively poor on recollection and familiarity tests for faces. Conversely, left-lesioned patients were severely deficient in recollection and familiarity of verbal material but mildly deficient on visual-spatial tests. This partially unexpected finding is interpreted in light of the ability of humans to verbally recode almost any material, thus giving rise to left-hemisphere effects for nominally nonverbal stimuli.
KW - amnesia
KW - face recognition
KW - familiarity
KW - recollection
KW - word recognition
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U2 - 10.1080/13554794.2015.1014819
DO - 10.1080/13554794.2015.1014819
M3 - Article
C2 - 25692372
AN - SCOPUS:84948710002
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Neurocase
JF - Neurocase
SN - 1355-4794
IS - 1
ER -