Defective recognition and naming of famous people from voice in patients with unilateral temporal lobe tumours

Autor: Costanza Papagno, Alessandra Casarotti, Giulia Mattavelli, G. Gainotti, Lorenzo Bello
Přispěvatelé: Papagno, C, Mattavelli, G, Casarotti, A, Bello, L, Gainotti, G
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
Famous Persons
Image Processing
Temporal lobe gliomas
Neuropsychological Tests
Audiology
Behavioral neuroscience
Functional Laterality
Unfamiliar voice discrimination
Behavioral Neuroscience
Discrimination
Psychological
Computer-Assisted
0302 clinical medicine
Discrimination
Image Processing
Computer-Assisted
Names
Psychology
Brain Neoplasms
05 social sciences
Glioma
Middle Aged
Executive functions
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Temporal Lobe
Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA
Frontal lobe
Hierarchical models of voice processing
Laterality
Female
Disconnection
medicine.symptom
Famous voice recognition
Cognitive psychology
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Temporal lobe glioma
Cognitive Neuroscience
Lesion laterality
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience
050105 experimental psychology
Temporal lobe
Lesion
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Memory Disorders
Recognition
Psychology
Recognition
Voice
Psychological
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Neuropsychologia. 116:194-204
ISSN: 0028-3932
Popis: Twenty-nine patients who underwent surgery for a temporal glioma, either in the left (16 patients) or right (13 patients) hemisphere, were administered standardized tests of unknown voice discrimination (UVD) and of famous voice recognition (VO-REC), which included tasks of familiarity evaluation, semantic identification and naming of famous voices. The UVD consisted of twenty stimuli, in which two audio files were consecutively presented; the subject was requested to judge whether the voices belonged to the same or different persons. In the VO-REC, patients were requested to recognize the voices of 40 very well known people; these voices were intermingled with the voices of 20 unknown people for a familiarity check, followed by identification and naming of persons recognized as familiar. We aimed at verifying the effect of laterality and intra-temporal site of lesion on familiarity assessment, false alarms, identification and naming of familiar people. As for the effect of lesion side, our results showed that patients with right temporal gliomas were significantly more impaired in voices discrimination and produced more false alarms than patients with a left glioma, who, in turn, were significantly more impaired in name retrieval than patients with a right temporal glioma. The high number of false alarms in patients with a right temporal glioma suggests that familiarity judgment was impaired. Regarding the neuroanatomical correlates of these different patterns of impairment, MRI data suggested that: (a) UVD disorders are due to lesions involving the whole right anterior temporal lobe and extending to lateral portions of the temporal and frontal lobes; (b) familiarity judgments (testified by an increased number of false alarms) are impaired in lesions restricted to the right anterior temporal lobe; (c) name retrieval deficits are found only in patients with left temporal lesions. UVD disorders were interpreted, at least in part, as due to an impairment of executive functions, resulting from a disconnection of the right temporal lobe from the frontal lobe control. A partly unexpected finding was that some patients with a right temporal tumour had a normal performance in famous voice recognition and identification, in spite of having severe voice discrimination disturbances. These unexpected results, in agreement with previous observation made in the visual (face) modality, are inconsistent with strictly hierarchical models of voice processing.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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