Impaired acquisition of new words after left temporal lobectomy despite normal fast-mapping behavior.

ABSTRACT: Word learning has been proposed to rely on unique brain regions including the temporal lobes, and the left temporal lobe appears to be especially important. In order to investigate the role of the left temporal lobe in word learning under different conditions, we tested whether patients with left temporal lobectomies (N=6) could learn novel words using two distinct formats. Previous research has shown that word learning in contrastive fast mapping conditions may rely on different neural substrates than explicit encoding conditions (Sharon et al., 2011). In the current investigation, we used a previously reported word learning task that implemented two distinct study formats (Warren and Duff, 2014): a contrastive fast mapping condition in which a picture of a novel item was displayed beside

SUBMITTER: Warren DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4698347 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature