Morris R G, Abrahams S, Polkey C E
Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
Br J Clin Psychol. 1995 Nov;34(4):571-6. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1995.tb01490.x.
The study tested the ability of the Warrington Recognition Memory Test (1984) to discriminate between patients with left and right temporal lobe lesions. Forty-seven patients who had undergone unilateral temporal lobectomy (TL) (23 right- and 24 left-sided operations) were tested on the two components of the test, recognition memory for words (RMW) and recognition memory for faces (RMF). The results show that the right TL group were significantly worse than the left TL group on RMF. Conversely, the left TL group were significantly worse on the RMW test, confirming earlier results relating to material-specific deficits in long-term memory following TL. The RMF test was relatively sensitive and specific in detecting significant impairments associated with right TL, but the RMW proved much less sensitive to the effects of left TL. RMW and RMF discrepancy scores were found not to discriminate well between the two groups of patients.
该研究测试了韦灵顿认知记忆测试（1984年版）区分左、右颞叶病变患者的能力。47名接受了单侧颞叶切除术（TL）的患者（23例右侧手术和24例左侧手术）接受了该测试的两个部分，即单词识别记忆（RMW）和面部识别记忆（RMF）的测试。结果显示，右侧颞叶组在RMF测试中的表现显著差于左侧颞叶组。相反，左侧颞叶组在RMW测试中的表现显著更差，这证实了先前有关颞叶切除术后长期记忆中材料特异性缺陷的研究结果。RMF测试在检测与右侧颞叶相关的显著损伤方面相对敏感且特异，但RMW对左侧颞叶的影响敏感性要低得多。研究发现，RMW和RMF差异分数在两组患者之间的区分效果不佳。
