TY - GEN
ID - cogprints938
UR - http://cogprints.org/938/
A1 - Beardsworth, Elizabeth D.
A1 - Zaidel, Dahlia w.
Y1 - 1994///
N2 - Memory for pairs of unfamiliar children's faces was investigated in 29 children and adolescents suffering from left (LTLE) or right (RTLE) temporal-lobe epilepsy, before and after temporal-lobe surgery. Both immediate and delayed memory were tested. Before surgery, RTLE subjects performed worse than either LTLE subjects or normal children. After surgery, RTLE subjects improved significantly. Overall (after surgery), there was no significant LTLE-RTLE difference, but on delayed memory, the RTLE group was worse than the LTLE group. The results suggest specialization for facial memory in the right hemisphere of young patients, as in adults, despite early brain damage.
PB - Swets&Zeitlinger
KW - short term memory
KW - epilepsy
KW - temporal lobe epilepsy
KW - temporal lobectomy
KW - unilateral
KW - left hemisphere
KW - right hemisphere
KW - hemispheric specialization
KW - clinical
KW - plasticity
KW - functional reorganization
KW - age
KW - sex
KW - delay
KW - child neuropsychology
KW - tests
KW - recovery
KW - medial temporal lobe
KW - mesial
KW - hippocampus.
TI - Memory for faces in epileptic children before and after brain surgery
SP - 589
AV - public
EP - 596
ER -