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  • Title: False recognition after a right frontal lobe infarction: memory for general and specific information.
    Author: Curran T, Schacter DL, Norman KA, Galluccio L.
    Journal: Neuropsychologia; 1997 Jul; 35(7):1035-49. PubMed ID: 9226663.
    Abstract:
    We previously reported a case study of a man with right frontal lobe damage, BG, who showed extraordinarily high false alarm rates on remember-know recognition tests (Schacter, D. L. et al., Neuropsychologia, 1996, Vol. 34, pp. 793-808). Experiment 1 extends his high false alarm rate to yes-no recognition tests. BG typically gives false 'remember' responses on remember-know tests, and this pattern was uninfluenced when he was asked to explain the basis for his 'remember' responses (Experiments 2 and 3). When BG was given a semantic encoding task, he stopped giving 'remember'-based false alarms (Experiment 4). Signal detection analyses revealed that BG had a discrimination deficit and an abnormally liberal response bias (especially for 'remember' responses) in most conditions. Overall, BG's high false alarm rate is interpreted as reflecting an over-reliance on the general similarity between a test item and the study episode.
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