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Serial position, rehearsal and recall in temporal lobe epilepsy
Author(s) -
Powell Graham E.,
Sutherland Gay,
Agu Godwin A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1984.tb00641.x
Subject(s) - temporal lobe , psychology , epilepsy , audiology , serial position effect , recall , neuroticism , lateralization of brain function , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , free recall , medicine , psychoanalysis , personality
Two auditory forms of the serial position curve (SPC) were administered to three groups of 20 subjects: normal and neurotic controls and chronic temporal lobe epileptics. In contrast to expectation, epileptics were especially poor on the recency portion of the curve. Evidence from a further 30 cases of temporal lobe damage suggested that the epileptics had rehearsed earlier items at the expense of later ones.