Brain, Vol. 119, No. 5, 1597-1615, 1996
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Double dissociations of memory and executive functions in working memory tasks following frontal lobe excisions, temporal lobe excisions or amygdalo-hippocampectomy in man
1Departments of Experimental Psychology London, UK 2Departments of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge London, UK 3Departments of Neuropsychology Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London London, UK 4Departments of Neurosurgical Unit, The Maudsley Hospital London, UK
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Adrian M. Owen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Box 189, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
Thirty-two neurosurgical patients with unilateral or bilateral frontal lobe excisions, 41 patients with unilateral temporal lobe lesions and 19 patients who had undergone unilateral amygdalo-hippocampectomy were compared with matched controls on a computerized test of spatial working memory. A significant deficit was observed in the frontal lobe group, even at the least challenging level of task difficulty and this impairment was found to relate to the inefficient use of a particular searching strategy shown to improve performance on this task. In contrast, deficits in the temporal lobe group and the amygdalo-hippocampectomy group were only observed at the most difficult level of the task and in neither group could the deficit be related to the inefficient use of any particular searching strategy. In a follow-up study, the three patient groups were compared on analogous computerized tests of visual and verbal working memory. No deficits were observed in the frontal lobe group. By comparison, both the temporal lobe patients and the amygdalo-hippocampectomy group were significantly impaired in the visual working memory condition but not in the verbal working memory condition. These deficits were clearly evident at all levels of task difficulty and were not related to any particular searching strategy. The data are discussed in terms of the relative contributions of ‘executive’ and ‘mnemonic’ mechanisms to the contrasting, material dependent deficits observed in the frontal and temporal lobe groups.
working memory; frontal cortex; temporal cortex; amygdala; executive functions
Received June 1, 1995. Revised April 5, 1996. Accepted May 24, 1996.
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