Viskontas Indre V, McAndrews Mary Pat, Moscovitch Morris
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Neuropsychology. 2002 Oct;16(4):472-80.
Memory for famous individuals was assessed by the use of a recognition test in which participants first made familiarity judgments, followed by forced-choice decisions to specific probes for identity. Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) or excisions, 12 left hemisphere and 12 right hemisphere, and 18 control participants identified famous figures across 3 decades (1970s-1990s). Only patients with right TLE were impaired at familiarity judgments of faces; this deficit was evident only for the most recent decades. Both groups of patients, however, were impaired at naming famous faces and at providing semantic information about famous people. These findings suggest the integrity of temporal structures in both hemispheres is critical for retrieval of detailed semantic information about famous individuals.
通过使用一种识别测试来评估对名人的记忆，在该测试中，参与者首先做出熟悉度判断，然后针对特定身份线索进行强制选择决策。患有颞叶癫痫（TLE）或接受过切除手术的患者，12名左半球患者和12名右半球患者，以及18名对照参与者识别了跨越3个十年（20世纪70年代至90年代）的名人。只有右侧颞叶癫痫患者在面孔熟悉度判断方面受损；这种缺陷仅在最近几十年才明显。然而，两组患者在说出名人面孔和提供有关名人的语义信息方面均受损。这些发现表明，两个半球颞叶结构的完整性对于检索有关名人的详细语义信息至关重要。
