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What are the functional deficits produced by hippocampal and perirhinal cortex lesions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

A. R. Mayes
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2JF, England{a.mayes; c.isaac; j.holdstock}@sheffield.ac.uk
R. van Eijk
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1QE, [email protected]
P. A. Gooding
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1QE, [email protected]
C. L. Isaac
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2JF, England{a.mayes; c.isaac; j.holdstock}@sheffield.ac.uk
J. S. Holdstock
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2JF, England{a.mayes; c.isaac; j.holdstock}@sheffield.ac.uk

Abstract

A hippocampal patient is described who shows preserved item recognition and simple recognition-based recollection but impaired recall and associative recognition. These data and other evidence suggest that contrary to Aggleton & Brown's target article, Papez circuit damage impairs only complex item-item-context recollection. A patient with perirhinal cortex damage and a delayed global memory deficit, apparently inconsistent with A&B's framework, is also described.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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