Humor and episodic memory following frontal versus posterior brain lesions.

Document Type

Article

Abstract

10 frontal versus 10 posterior brain-lesioned patients were studied as to their capacity to use feelings (a humor response) to aid episodic memory. Both groups were inferior to 10 controls, and frontal-lesioned patients were inferior to those with posterior lesions. However, the former had more trouble using visual cues to aid memory. Consequently, the differences between frontal- and posterior-lesioned patients may not be specifically related to differences in using "feeling" cues to facilitate memory.

Publication Date

1-1-1981

Publication Title

Perceptual and motor skills

ISSN

00315125

Volume

53

Issue

3

First Page

999

Last Page

1006

PubMed ID

7322795

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.2466/pms.1981.53.3.999

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