Incidental and deliberate memory for words and faces after focal cerebral lesions.
It was predicted that right-hemisphere lesions cause a more marked deficit of shallow incidental memory than deep incidental or deliberate memory, the degree of the deficits being reversed after left-hemisphere lesions. This hypothesis was studied by measuring memory for words and faces in brain-damaged patients and nine controls after: shallow incidental learning, i.e. detecting words containing the letter 'A' and counting male and female faces; deep incidental learning, i.e. detecting words that mean man-made things and searching for well-known faces; and deliberate learning of words and faces. The results failed to support the hypothesis, but were consistent with the well-established finding that left- and right-hemisphere lesions disturb memory for words and faces, respectively.
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D014705:Verbal Behavior