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Personal name recognition and associative priming in patients with unilateral brain damage.
- Source :
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Brain and cognition [Brain Cogn] 1995 Oct; Vol. 29 (1), pp. 23-35. - Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- This study investigated the performance of left- (LBD) and right-brain-damaged (RBD) patients in recognizing personal names under different conditions of associative priming. Subjects performed speeded familiarity decisions for names of famous and unfamiliar persons. These target names were preceded by primes, either faces or names, which could be neutral, related (e.g. Gorbachev-Jelzin), or unrelated (e.g. Travolta-Carter). Overall impairments in name recognition were observed in both patient groups relative to controls but were more severe in LBD than in RBD patients. This suggests that, contrary to previous hypotheses, the recognition of personal names is more dependent on left hemisphere functioning. In controls and LBD patients, associative priming effects did not differ significantly between face and name primes. In RBD patients, however, associative priming from names was larger than priming from faces. This specificity of priming effects for names in RBD patients was tentatively related to their impairments in face recognition.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Aged
Brain Damage, Chronic psychology
Cerebral Cortex physiopathology
Face
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Reaction Time physiology
Attention physiology
Brain Damage, Chronic physiopathology
Dominance, Cerebral physiology
Interpersonal Relations
Mental Recall physiology
Paired-Associate Learning physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual physiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0278-2626
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Brain and cognition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8845121
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1006/brcg.1995.1265