Serial position learning effects in patients with aneurysms of the anterior communicating artery.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol
; 24(5): 687-94, 2002 Aug.
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Ruptured and repaired Anterior Communicating Artery (ACoA) aneurysm can result in devastating impairments involving memory, executive function, confabulation, and personality changes. This study tested serial position learning effects (SPEs) in patients following repaired and ruptured ACoA aneurysm, using results on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). Thirty patients with ruptured aneurysms of the ACoA and 31 matched controls were included in the study. The primacy-recency effects were maintained during five learning trials in ACoA group, albeit at an overall lower level than in the controls. There was no difference in primacy-recency relation across five learning trials in ACoA group. On the delayed recall trial the patient group demonstrated neither a primacy, nor a recency phenomenon, reflecting a lack of recall of any parts of the word list. This kind of primacy-recency profile across learning trials in ACoA group has no similarity with SPE results in frontal lesion groups, or with SPE distributions in other amnesic disorders, despite the fact that memory and executive deficits were evident in our ACoA group.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Aprendizaje Seriado
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Fístula Arteriovenosa
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Memoria
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol
Asunto de la revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2002
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Yugoslavia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido