Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-11 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Neurocase |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2 2016 |
Keywords
- amnesia
- face recognition
- familiarity
- recollection
- word recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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Lombardi, M. G., Fadda, L., Serra, L., Di Paola, M., Caltagirone, C., & Carlesimo, G. A. (2016). Recollection and familiarity components of recognition: effect of side of mesio-temporal damage. Neurocase, 22(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2015.1014819