Font-specific priming following global amnesia and occipital lobe damage.
NeuropsychologyPublished 1 January 1998
Chandan J. Vaidya, John D. E. Gabrieli, Mieke Verfaellie, Debra Fleischman, Nusha Askari
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Font-specificity in visual word-stem completion priming depends on visual processes mediated by the right-occipital lobe rather than medial temporal and diencephalic regions involved in declarative memory.
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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.
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