Specialization in the medial temporal lobe for processing of objects and scenes

• Published in: Hippocampus Vol. 15; no. 6; pp. 782 - 797
• Main Authors: Lee, Andy C.H., Buckley, Mark J., Pegman, Sarah J., Spiers, Hugo, Scahill, Victoria L., Gaffan, David, Bussey, Timothy J., Davies, R. Rhys, Kapur, Narinder, Hodges, John R., Graham, Kim S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 2005
• Subjects: Aged; amnesia; Amnesia - pathology; Amnesia - physiopathology; Brain Damage, Chronic - complications; Brain Damage, Chronic - pathology; Brain Mapping; Face; Functional Laterality - physiology; hippocampus; Hippocampus - anatomy & histology; Hippocampus - physiology; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; memory; Memory - physiology; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Parahippocampal Gyrus - anatomy & histology; Parahippocampal Gyrus - physiology; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; perception; perirhinal cortex; Photic Stimulation; Space Perception - physiology

There has been considerable debate as to whether the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex may subserve both memory and perception. We administered a series of oddity tasks, in which subjects selected the odd stimulus from a visual array, to amnesic patients with either selective hippocampal damage (HC...