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›› 2000, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (01): 86-90.

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AN AMNESIC PATIENT WITH RIGHT CEREBRAL DYSPLASIA:PRIMING INDEPENDENT OF RIGHT NEOCORTEX

Wang Changsheng(Department of Psychology,Peking University,Beijing 100871)Yu Shengyuan(Department of Neurology,Chinese People's Liberation Army G General Hopital,Beijing 100853)Tang Jianrong(Institut fuer Biosynthese Neuraler Strukturen,University Hamburg   

  • Published:2000-03-25 Online:2000-03-25

Abstract: Two experiments were conducted with two perceptual priming tasks (Chinese character rootcompletion, Chinese character identification) and two semantic priming tasks (Chinese chunkfree-association, Chinese character preference) on one amnesic patient with right cerebral dysplasia(WMS-CR=46, WISC-CR IQ=56) to explore if right neocortex impairment had any effect on perceptualpriming or semantic priming. it was found that the patient performed almost equally or even better thanthe two normal control groups did on the four tasks. The results suggested that priming (perceptual orsemantic priming) was independent of human right neocortex.

Key words: right cerebral dysplasia, right neocortex, perceptual priming, conceptual priming, independence