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Defects of Learning Ability with Massive Lesions of the Temporal Lobe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Victor Meyer  and
Murray A. Falconer
Victor Meyer
Affiliation:
Guy's-Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit, London
Murray A. Falconer
Affiliation:
Guy's-Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit, London
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In previous studies of patients on whom an anterior temporal lobectomy has been performed for the relief of temporal lobe epilepsy, it has been shown that, following removal of the dominant temporal lobe, certain specific defects of cognitive functions arise which are not present after removal of the non-dominant temporal lobe (Meyer and Yates, 1955; Meyer, 1957; Meyer and Jones, 1957; Meyer, 1959). The present study has been undertaken to find out whether destruction or damage to the same region by massive lesions such as tumours and large scars would produce comparable findings.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 443 , April 1960 , pp. 472 - 477
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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