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CN 11-1911/B

›› 1998, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (04): 423-430.

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DISSOCIATION AND LOCALIZATION OF PERCEPTUAL AND SEMANTIC PRIMING IN AN AMNESIC PATIENT WITH RIGHT BASAL GANGLIA IMPAIRED

Wang Changsheng(Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101)Yang Zhiliang(Department of Psychology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062)Zheng Tao; Wang Huiju; Chao Mingyu(The 445th Hospital of P. L. A., Shanghai 200062)   

  • Published:1998-12-25 Online:1998-12-25

Abstract: Two experiments conducted with two Perceptual priming tasks (word root completion, word identification) and two semantic priming tasks (free association, preference judgment) on an amnesic patient with right basal ganglia impaired to explore the dissociation between perceptual priming and semantic priming tests. It was found that the patient impaired perceptual priming tests, but not semantic priming tests compared to the controls. The results suggested that neurological structures of perceptual priming but not semantic priming were located in the hasal ganglia and different types of priming might have different neurological locus.

Key words: amnesic patient, right basal ganglia, perceptual priming, conceptual priming, dissociation, localization