Visual recognition memory of severely head-injured patients.
14 severely head-injured adults were compared with 14 normals on a recognition procedure, Kimura's Recurring Figures Test, which requires identification of eight recurring shapes among a series of 160. The head-injured patients showed, by far, more incorrect responses than the control group.
D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000523:psychology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology*; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000523:psychology*