[Verbal memory disorders in local lesions of the right and left hemispheres].

Disturbances of verbal memory were examined in patients with local cerebral affections. The patients were asked to reproduce triads of words selected with regard to their semantic (situation or synonymic associations) or sensor (phonetic association) similarity. The ability to reproduce the triads was found to be different depending on the kind of the triads and the pathological focus localization. Patients with the pathological focus in the posterior divisions of the left hemisphere could hardly reproduce the triads of the semantically-similar words, while those with the pathological focus in the posterior divisions of the right hemisphere had difficulties in reproducing the triads of the phonetically-similar words. There were no differences as regards the triad type in patients with the pathological focus localization in the frontal divisions of the left hemisphere. A problem of multi-channel coding of the information for its processing and storage is discussed.