Faces are special but not too special: spared face recognition in amnesia is based on familiarity.

Abstract:

:Most current theories of human memory are material-general in the sense that they assume that the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is important for retrieving the details of prior events, regardless of the specific type of materials. Recent studies of amnesia have challenged the material-general assumption by suggesting that the MTL may be necessary for remembering words, but is not involved in remembering faces. We examined recognition memory for faces and words in a group of amnesic patients, which included hypoxic patients and patients with extensive left or right MTL lesions. Recognition confidence judgments were used to plot receiver operating characteristics (ROCs) in order to more fully quantify recognition performance and to estimate the contributions of recollection and familiarity. Consistent with the extant literature, an analysis of overall recognition accuracy showed that the patients were impaired at word memory but had spared face memory. However, the ROC analysis indicated that the patients were generally impaired at high confidence recognition responses for faces and words, and they exhibited significant recollection impairments for both types of materials. Familiarity for faces was preserved in all patients, but extensive left MTL damage impaired familiarity for words. These results show that face recognition may appear to be spared because performance tends to rely heavily on familiarity, a process that is relatively well preserved in amnesia. In addition, the findings challenge material-general theories of memory, and suggest that both material and process are important determinants of memory performance in amnesia.

journal_name

Neuropsychologia

journal_title

Neuropsychologia

authors

Aly M,Knight RT,Yonelinas AP

doi

10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-11-01 00:00:00

pages

3941-8

issue

13

eissn

0028-3932

issn

1873-3514

pii

S0028-3932(10)00385-4

journal_volume

48

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