Memory for visual patterns was examined in 131 patients with unilateral temporal- or frontal-lobe excisions and 32 normal control subjects. A deficit in short-term memory for matrices of increasing complexity was exhibited by the right frontal-lobe group. Right temporal lobectomy impaired cued recall of visually homogeneous matrices at each of four serial positions. On the delayed recognition of complex visual scenes, right temporal lobectomy decreased identification of changes in figurative detail and spatial composition, whereas right hippocampectomy impaired identification of changes in spatial location. The interplay between verbal and pictorial codes in memory was also investigated using related word-design pairs. Right or left temporal lobectomy affected the number of designs recalled but only the right temporal-lobe group produced designs of poor quality. When cued with the words, the left temporal-lobe group produced fewer designs than the control subjects, demonstrating a reduced ability to retrieve pictorial information through verbal labels.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.74287 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Pigott, Susan |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Psychology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001066760, proquestno: AAINN63500, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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