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Effects of stimulus emotionality and sentence generation on memory for words in adults with unilateral brain damage.
Authors:Berrin-Wasserman  Stacy; Winnick  Wilma A; Borod  Joan C
Abstract:Does sentence generation and/or stimulus emotionality enhance verbal memory in patients with neurological impairment? This question was addressed by testing 40 patients with unilateral stroke (20 with left-brain and 20 with right-brain damage) and 20 healthy control participants for recall and recognition of 48 target words. During encoding, emotional and nonemotional words were either presented in sentences (read condition) or used to form sentences (generate condition). Both word emotionality and generative processing improved memory performance in all groups. The authors suggest that a similar influence (i.e., cognitive activation) underlies both of these memory-enhancing effects, although the putative origins of the 2 effects are quite different. Neuropsychological underpinnings and clinical implications of these phenomena are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords:stimulus emotionality  sentence generation  verbal memory  recall  recognition  memory enhancing effects  unilateral brain damage  stroke
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