Recollection and familiarity components of recognition: effect of side of mesio-temporal damage. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lombardi, Maria Giovanna; Fadda, Lucia; Serra, Laura; Di Paola, Margherita; Caltagirone, Carlo; Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto
• Is Part Of: Neurocase. Volume 22:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 11
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: face recognition -- word recognition -- recollection -- familiarity -- amnesia; Neurology -- Periodicals; Neuropsychology -- Case Report; Mental Disorders -- Case Report; Nervous System Diseases -- Case Report; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2015.1014819
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1355-4794

Abstract

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.