Vaidya C J, Gabrieli J D, Verfaellie M, Fleischman D, Askari N
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.
Neuropsychology. 1998 Apr;12(2):183-92. doi: 10.1037//0894-4105.12.2.183.
Font-specificity in visual word-stem completion priming was examined in patients with global amnesia and Patient M.S., who had a right-occipital lobectomy. Word-stems appeared in the same or different font as study words. Amnesic patients showed normal font-specific priming (greater priming for words studied in the same than different font as test), despite impaired word-stem cued recall. Patient M.S. failed to exhibit font-specific priming, despite preserved declarative memory. Therefore, perceptual specificity in visual priming depends on visual processes mediated by the right-occipital lobe rather than medial temporal and diencephalic regions involved in declarative memory.
