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标题：Serial position curve and semantic facilitation in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
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作者：Ivanda Souza Silva Tudesco ; Leonardo José Vaz ; Maria Helena da Silva Noffs, Elza 等
期刊名称：Psico
印刷版ISSN：0103-5371
电子版ISSN：1980-8623
出版年度：2008
卷号：39
期号：03
出版社：Faculdade de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：We investigated the serial position curve and semantic facilitation effect in patients with left and right mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) with hipocampal sclerosis compared to a matched control group. Subjects (L-MTLE = 19, R-MTLE = 15, and controls = 21) were assessed by recalling word lists either with the three middle words semantically related or not. The total number of words recalled from both types of lists did not differ between groups. Recency was preserved, showing that short-term memory (phonological loop) is not affected in these patients. Primacy was equally present for the lists with no semantic relationships in all groups, but was absent for lists with semantically related words. The semantic facilitation effect was seen in all groups, but with a lower magnitude in the L-MTLE group, suggesting that the spread of discharges in the left hemisphere interferes with the automatic processing of semantic networks.
关键词：mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; serial position curve; semantic facilitation; episodic memory; semantic memory.