Visual paired comparison performance is impaired in a patient with selective hippocampal lesions and relatively intact item recognition

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 42; no. 10; pp. 1293 - 1300
• Main Authors: Pascalis, O, Hunkin, N.M, Holdstock, J.S, Isaac, C.L, Mayes, A.R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2004; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Amnesia; Anatomical correlates of behavior; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Damage, Chronic - physiopathology; Face; Female; Form Perception - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hippocampus; Hippocampus - physiology; Hippocampus - physiopathology; Human; Humans; Learning. Memory; Matched-Pair Analysis; Memory; Middle Aged; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Recognition memory; Reference Values; Retention (Psychology) - physiology; Time Factors; VPC; VPC; Recognition memory; Amnesia; Hippocampus; Human; Memory; Central nervous system; Cognition; Experimental study; Retention; Encephalon; Learning; Case study; Visual stimulus; Acquisition process; Problem solving; Matching task

In this study, we have examined visual recognition memory in a patient, YR, with discrete hippocampal damage who has shown normal or nearly normal item recognition over a large number of tests. We directly compared her performance as measured using a visual paired comparison task (VPC) with her perf...