Hmmm..how does one recognize a NEW object? One might confabulate and
claim recognition of a new objectt (especially if one has frontal
lesions), but wouldn't valid recognition be of an OLD object???
On the oter hand, it was in Australia, in fact (Cairns) that I
presented a paper by Dr. Elena Kumkova and myself which reported use of
a visual memory test based on "new" objects (i.e. NOBODY had seen them
before), which had been devised so as to discourage the kind of
analysis and verbal description the "nonsense shapes" used in SOME
(most?) visual memory tests, and encourage seeing them "as a whole" or
"as an object", the way one USUALLY sees a face.
Some of our (behavioral) data did support the idea that they were
treated the same way faces were, so it is satisfying to see (if that is
what this study shows) that functional neuroimaging data might also,,
in the case of some "new objects".
Of course, before we tested recognition we showed them to our subjects,
so they could tell them from REALLY new ones which we did NOT let them
see before testing. (That is, they recognized the OLD objects and
could discriminate them from the REALLY new objects).
F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <933043949.381386 at server.australia.net.au> "John"
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