Face learning and memory: the twins test.
Neuropsychology
; 15(4): 525-34, 2001 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-11761042
ABSTRACT
The clinical utility of current face recognition tests has been questioned. To evaluate if a new paradigm may measure this type of memory more accurately, the authors created a novel test to examine face learning (previously uninvestigated) and short- and long-term retention. For this initial investigation of test sensitivity to hemisphere of dysfunction, patients with surgical resection from a temporal lobe and healthy subjects were tested. Recognition was evaluated on 3 trials after a single exposure, after 4 exposures (for learning), and after a 24-hr delay interval. Patients with a right resection performed significantly worse than healthy controls and patients with left resection. There was no difference between patients with a left resection and controls. Classification of individual patients to side of resection based on test results showed higher sensitivity (82%) than published for other tests and maintained good specificity (79%).
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Complicações Pós-Operatórias
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Rememoração Mental
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Prosopagnosia
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Dominância Cerebral
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Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2001
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Article