'I know your name, but not your number' – Patients with verbal short-term memory deficits are impaired in learning sequences of digits
| Autor: | Margret Seyboth, Roza M. Umarova, Tobias Bormann, Cornelius Weiller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience education Short-term memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Verbal learning behavioral disciplines and activities Behavioral Neuroscience Word learning Humans Names In patient Episodic memory Aged Memory Disorders California Verbal Learning Test Middle Aged Verbal Learning Numerical digit Semantics Memory Short-Term Acoustic Stimulation Female Verbal memory Psychology Mathematics Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychologia. 72:80-86 |
| ISSN: | 0028-3932 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.03.027 |
| Popis: | Studies on verbal learning in patients with impaired verbal short-term memory (vSTM) have revealed dissociations among types of verbal information. Patients with impaired vSTM are able to learn lists of known words but fail to acquire new word forms. This suggests that vSTM is involved in new word learning. The present study assessed both new word learning and the learning of digit sequences in two patients with impaired vSTM. In two experiments, participants were required to learn people's names, ages and professions, or their four digit 'phone numbers'. The STM patients were impaired on learning unknown family names and phone numbers, but managed to acquire other verbal information. In contrast, a patient with a severe verbal episodic memory impairment was impaired across information types. These results indicate verbal STM involvement in the learning of digit sequences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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