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12030307

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-5-27
pubmed:abstractText
Numerous studies have suggested that frontal cortex plays a strategic, rather than an absolute, role in memory performance. Typically, frontal patients are reported to have impaired recall but normal recognition memory. A recent meta-analysis, however, has questioned this conclusion. To further investigate the role of frontal cortex in long-term memory, patients with focal frontal lesions and age- and education-matched controls were tested on a new version of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT-II). Frontal patients exhibited a number of deficits on this test, including overall poorer recall, an increased tendency to make intrusions, reduced semantic clustering, and impaired yes/no recognition performance. Further analysis of the error rates in the yes/no recognition task revealed that frontal patients were most likely to mistakenly endorse 2 types of distractors: semantically related words and words from an interference list. These findings are discussed with respect to the role of frontal dysfunction in false recollections and poor source memory, as well as the distinction between the roles of frontal and temporal cortex in long-term memory.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1355-6177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
539-46
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Memory performance on the California Verbal Learning Test-II: findings from patients with focal frontal lesions.
pubmed:affiliation
VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez 94553, USA. juliana@socrates.berkeley.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't