Recognition memory for single items and for associations in amnesic patients

被引:107
作者
Turriziani, P
Fadda, L
Caltagirone, C
Carlesimo, GA
机构
[1] IRCCS, Fdn Santa Lucia, Lab Neurol Clin & Comportamentale, I-00179 Rome, Italy
[2] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Neurol Clin, I-00173 Rome, Italy
[3] Univ Palermo, Dipartimento Psicol, Palermo, Italy
关键词
amnesia; familiarity; recollection; hippocampus;
D O I
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.10.003
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Recognition memory performance reflects two distinct processes or types of memory referred to as recollection and familiarity. According to theoretical claims about the two types of memory, single item and associative recognition tasks can be used as an experimental method to distinguish recollection and familiarity processes. Associative recognition decisions can be used as an index of recollection while memory for single items is mostly based on familiarity judgement. We employed this procedure to examine a possible dissociation in the memory performance of amnesic patients between spared single item and impaired associative recognition. Twelve amnesic patients, six with damage confined to the hippocampus proper, and six with damage elsewhere in the brain, were recruited for the present study. The findings showed that hippocampal amnesics exhibit relative sparing of single item learning but are consistently deficient in the learning of all kinds of between-item associations. These results are consistent with the view that hippocampal formation contributes differently to declarative tasks that require recollective or familiarity processes. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:426 / 433
页数:8
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