Biomedical subjects

F B Gershberg

Publications and source records attributed to F B Gershberg.

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PubMed1995

Impaired use of organizational strategies in free recall following frontal lobe damage.

Free recall, use of organizational strategies, and interference effects were assessed in patients with frontal lobe lesions and control subjects. In three experiments, patients with frontal lobe lesions exhibited impaired free recall and reduced use of organizational strategies in tests of memory. Reduced use of strategies was observed on tests of recall of unrelated items, as measured by subjective organization, and on tests of recall of related items, as measured by both category clustering and subjective organization. Frontal patients benefited from strategy instruction at either study or test, suggesting that both encoding and retrieval processes are impaired by frontal lobe damage. These findings indicate that the free recall impairments exhibited by patients with frontal lobe lesions may be caused at least in part by deficits in the use of organizational strategies. In addition, when first-list learning was matched for patients and control subjects, patients with frontal lobe lesions exhibited relatively increased sensitivity to proactive interference during second-list learning.

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PubMed1994

Serial position effects in implicit and explicit tests of memory.

The effects of serial position at study on implicit and explicit tests of memory were investigated. Both primary and recency effects were observed in implicit tests of word-stem completion. These effects, however, were transient. No serial position effects were found in the second half of testing (Experiments 1 and 3) or when testing followed a 1-min, filled delay (Experiment 2). Serial position effects were also examined in explicit tests of cued recall. When performance on explicit cued recall was below ceiling levels, a primacy effect persisted throughout testing (Experiment 3). Similarly, in explicit tests of free recall, primacy effects were consistently observed, both with immediate testing (Experiments 1 and 3) and when testing followed a filled delay (Experiment 2).

Humans↗

PubMed1992

Intact implicit memory in patients with frontal lobe lesions.

Patients with frontal lobe lesions and control subjects were administered tests of word-stem completion priming. In this implicit memory test, subjects are first presented words (e.g. MOTEL, PARADE) in an incidental learning paradigm. Following word presentation, subjects are shown word stems (e.g. MOT, PAR) and asked to produce the first word that comes to mind. Patients with frontal lobe lesions exhibited normal levels of word-stem completion. These findings indicate that implicit memory can operate normally despite damage to the prefrontal cortex. The present results substantiate previous neuropsychological and positron emission tomography findings which indicate that word priming depends critically on posterior cortical areas.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗