The anatomical localisation of selective impairment of auditory verbal short-term memory

Warrington, Elizabeth K.; Logue, Valentine; Pratt, R. T. C.

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(71)90002-9

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“…For auditory short-term memory, left temporo-parietal cortical regions appear to be involved in encoding and storage while left frontal cortical regions appear to be related to rehearsal and recall (Warrington and Shallice, 1969;Warrington et al, 1971;Starr et al, 1991;Fiez et al, 1996;Smith et al, 1996). In this report, we will show that activity of the auditory sensory cortex, re¯ected by the amplitude of the N100 component of the auditory evoked potential (Hari et al, 1980;Rogers et al, 1990;Scherg and Picton, 1991), changed in an orderly manner as a function of memory load and probe type.…”

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The N100 auditory cortical evoked potential indexes scanning of auditory short-term memory

Conley

Michalewski

Starr

1999

Clinical Neurophysiology

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The N100 auditory cortical evoked potential indexes scanning of auditory short-term memory

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Michalewski

Starr

1999

Clinical Neurophysiology

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“…Activity in this region is strongly linked to rehearsal of information held in auditory or visual buffers, more so than to the executive components of working memory (for reviews, see Baddeley, 2003;D'Esposito et al, 2006;Martin, 2005;Smith & Jonides, 1998). Lesion studies are generally consistent with this finding (e.g., De Renzi & Nichelli, 1975;Markowitsch et al, 1999;Warrington & Shallice, 1969;Warrington et al, 1971; see also Butters et al, 1970;Samuels et al, 1971). Participants may engage in a greater degree of post-retrieval rehearsal than normal in the scanner due to the unusual demands inherent to the scanning situation.…”

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Does lateral parietal cortex support episodic memory?

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Although neuroimaging and human lesion studies agree that the medial parietal region plays a critical role in episodic memory, many neuroimaging studies have also implicated lateral parietal cortex, leading some researchers to suggest that the lateral region plays a heretofore underappreciated role in episodic memory. Because there are very few extant lesion data on this matter, we examined memory in six cases of focal lateral parietal damage, using both clinical and experimental measures, in which we distinguished between recollection and familiarity. The patients did not have amnesia, but they did show evidence of disrupted recollection on an anterograde memory task. Although the exact mechanisms remain to be elucidated, lateral parietal damage appears to impair some aspects of episodic memory.

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“…3 This pattern has been interpreted as a selective disruption of the phonological short-term store. Two of the most studied STM patients were KF (Warrington & Shallice, 1969) and JB (Warrington et al, 1971). KF suffered damage to the left inferior parietal/occipitotemporal region, whereas JB suffered damage to the left middle and superior temporal gyri spreading into the inferior parietal lobe.…”

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Reduced phonological similarity effects in patients with damage to the cerebellum

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Ten cerebellar patients were compared to ten control subjects on a verbal working memory task in which the phonological similarity of the words to be remembered and their modality of presentation were manipulated. Cerebellar patients demonstrated a reduction of the phonological similarity effect relative to controls. Further, this reduction did not depend systematically upon the presentation modality. These results first document that qualitative differences in verbal working memory may be observed following cerebellar damage, indicating altered cognitive processing, even though behavioral output as measured by the digit span may be within normal limits. However, the results also present problems for the hypothesis that the cerebellar role is specifically associated with articulatory rehearsal as conceptualized in the Baddeley-Hitch model of working memory. Keywordscerebellum; verbal working memory; speech perception; language; cognition; short-term memory; dysarthria; aphasia Researchers in cognitive neuroscience have in many cases looked to converging data from multiple methodologies when investigating a cognitive process of interest. The complementary perspectives of functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology are often employed in this regard; a strong case can be made for the involvement of a brain region in a given cognitive process when it is both metabolically active when healthy participants engage in the cognitive process, and when damage to this region disrupts the same cognitive process. Although the precise nature of this involvement may prove elusive to characterize, the brain region comes to be regarded as an essential component of the system in question. When the two methodologies of neuroimaging and neuropsychology do not converge, however, even the most basic question of whether a given region is involved in a cognitive process is difficult to address.One issue that must be kept in mind when making comparisons between data from neuroimaging and data from neuropsychology is that the two methods provide very different kinds of evidence about cognition. Neuroimaging studies have the potential to document qualitative aspects of cognitive processing that may not be evident from the behavioral outcome. In contrast, neuropsychological data -particularly that from standardized batteries that examine for gross impairment across a wide range of cognitive tasks -sometimes do not NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript allow for such an observation. Identical behavioral outcomes may become falsely equated with identical cognitive processes, when this most certainly is not always the case. 1 Neuropsychological studies must be designed such that the relevant qualitative as well as quantitative differences in a cognitive process may be observed.A relative lack of convergence in the neuroimaging and neuropsychological literatures was a part of the motivation for the current study, which investigated the verbal working memory abilities of patients with damage...

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The anatomical localisation of selective impairment of auditory verbal short-term memory

Cited by 281 publications

References 11 publications

The N100 auditory cortical evoked potential indexes scanning of auditory short-term memory

The N100 auditory cortical evoked potential indexes scanning of auditory short-term memory

Does lateral parietal cortex support episodic memory?

Reduced phonological similarity effects in patients with damage to the cerebellum

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