title: Recollection and familiarity components of recognition: effect of side of mesio-temporal damage.
abstract: We investigated the memory performance of three patients with unilateral mesio-temporal lobe damage with the aim of evaluating the roles of the left and right hemispheres in recollection and familiarity. Consistent with the "Material Specificity Hypothesis", the right brain-damaged individual was selectively poor on recollection and familiarity tests for faces. Conversely, left-lesioned patients were severely deficient in recollection and familiarity of verbal material but mildly deficient on visual-spatial tests. This partially unexpected finding is interpreted in light of the ability of humans to verbally recode almost any material, thus giving rise to left-hemisphere effects for nominally nonverbal stimuli.
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale , I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia , Roma , Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Giovanna
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Lombardi
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale , I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia , Roma , Italy.|b Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi , Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" , Roma , Italy.
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fadda
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale , I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia , Roma , Italy.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Serra
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale , I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia , Roma , Italy.|c Dipartimento di Scienze Umane , LUMSA , Roma , Italy.
authors.forename: Margherita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Paola
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale , I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia , Roma , Italy.|b Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi , Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" , Roma , Italy.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caltagirone
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale , I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia , Roma , Italy.|b Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi , Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" , Roma , Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni Augusto
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Carlesimo
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000293:injuries*
keywords: amnesia; face recognition; familiarity; recollection; word recognition