title: Serial position, rehearsal and recall in temporal lobe epilepsy.
abstract: Two auditory forms of the serial position curve (SPC) were administered to three groups of 20 subjects: normal and neurotic controls and chronic temporal lobe epileptics. In contrast to expectation, epileptics were especially poor on the recency portion of the curve. Evidence from a further 30 cases of temporal lobe damage suggested that the epileptics had rehearsed earlier items at the expense of later ones.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012691:Serial Learning; D013067:Speech Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning