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Two patients who lost, in isolation, visual recent memory following bilateral posterior cerebral artery infarctions are described. Tactile, verbal, and nonverbal auditory recent memory functions were preserved in both patients. Based on computerized tomography scans and behavioral and anatomical data in monkey, isolated loss of visual recent memory in man is best understood as a bilateral disconnection syndrome between the striate cortex and the structures in the medial temporal lobe that are involved with recent memory. The possible existence of two other sensory-specific disorders of recent memory, tactile and auditory, is postulated, and the clinical relationship of prosopagnosia, achromatopsia, and spatial disorientation to visual recent memory loss is discussed.
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PMID:Sensory-specific and fractional disorders of recent memory in man. I. Isolated loss of visual recent memory. 736 83

We studied a woman (Case 1) who acquired achromatopsia, prosopagnosia, and memory loss after sustaining bilateral temporal-lobe lesions. Given her symptoms and locus of lesion, the affected area may be related to the monkey visual area IT. In order to examine her deficits, we assessed her basic discrimination capacities in several domains. She performed normally when stimuli differed in contrast, size, or motion. her performance was abnormal for patterned targets, and was markedly impaired when the patterned targets were less prominent than distractors. This impairment decreased with practice. These symptoms partially resemble the deficits that have been found in monkeys with lesions in visual cortical area V4.
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PMID:Visual discrimination and attention after bilateral temporal-lobe lesions: a case study. 992 Apr 75