a Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A.
Reed Neurological Research Center, UCLA, USA
Abstract:
Long-term recognition memory for single details and whole scenes of organized and disorganized pictures was assessed in 19 patients who had undergone left or right anterior temporal lobectony. Dissociation between organized and disorganized pictures occurred only with left temporal lobectomy patients. Whole scenes were recognized better than details by all subjects. Results are discussed in terms of symmetric hemispheric representation for mnestic processes involving details and whole scenes, and asymmetric representation for mnestic processes involving organized and disorganized scenes, or real-world schemata.