Effect of unilateral temporal lobe resection on short-term memory for auditory object and sound location.
To investigate auditory spatial and nonspatial short-term memory, a sound location discrimination task and an auditory object discrimination task were used in patients with medial temporal lobe resection. The results showed a double dissociation between the side of the medial temporal lobe lesion and the nature of the auditory discrimination deficits, suggesting that right and left temporal lobe structures are differently involved in auditory spatial and nonspatial short-term memory.
Lancelot
Celine
C
University of Lille 3, URECA, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. celinelancelot2@aol.com
Samson
Severine
S
Ahad
Pierre
P
Baulac
Michel
M
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000601:surgery; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D009146:Music; D013017:Sound Localization / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery*