title: The effect of memory impairment on verbal recognition scores and the marking of acoustic and semantic distractors.
abstract: A test of verbal recognition, yielding separate scores for semantic and acoustic distractor errors as well as a simple recognition score, successfully discriminated between various groups of brain-damaged, depressive, and normal subjects in a sequence predictable from their pathology. However, the profile of distractor errors was similar for all groups tested, with a consistent tendency for subjects to make more semantic errors than acoustic errors in all cases. It was concluded that the failure to find qualitative coding differences was probably a consequence of the procedure used and did not necessarily contradict previous findings that amnesics were less effective than normal subjects in coding semantically.
mesh_terms: D000647:Amnesia / Q000523:psychology*; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D013061:Speech Acoustics