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Hemisphere Side Of Damage And Encoding Capacity, Margaret Ellen Davis
Hemisphere Side Of Damage And Encoding Capacity, Margaret Ellen Davis
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This study was designed to examine whether normal information processing does engage both hemispheres of the brain regardless of sensory channel (i.e., auditory or visual), and whether an opportunity for dual encoding (verbal and visual) was advantageous for patients with unilateral brain damage. It compared memory for verbal material presented in the visual and auditory modalities among three groups: right hemisphere brain damaged stroke patients (RBD), left hemisphere brain damaged stroke patients (LBD), and neurologically intact control subjects.
Only control and LBD subjects benefited from the visual presentation compared with auditory. Controls did generally better on both modes than either …