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NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA 卷:151
The language of mental images: Characterizing hippocampal contributions to imageable word use during event construction
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Race, Elizabeth1,2,3  Carlisle, Camille1  Tejwani, Ruchi1  Verfaellie, Mieke2,3 
[1] Tufts Univ, Dept Psychol, 450 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02150 USA
[2] VA Boston Healthcare Syst, Memory Disorders Res Ctr, Boston, MA 02130 USA
[3] Boston Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA 02130 USA
关键词: Medial temporal lobe;    Episodic memory;    Language production;   
DOI  :  10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107705
来源: Elsevier
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Accumulating evidence suggests that the hippocampus plays a critical role in the creative and flexible use of language at the sentence or discourse level. Yet it is currently unclear whether the hippocampus also supports language use at the level of single words. A recent study by Hilverman et al. (2017) found that amnesic patients with hippocampal damage use less imageable words when describing autobiographical episodes compared to healthy controls, but this deficit was attributed to patients' deficits in episodic memory rather than impairments in linguistic functions of the hippocampus per se. Yet, in addition to affecting word use by way of its role in memory, the hippocampus could also impact language use more directly. The current study aimed to test this hypothesis by investigating the status of imageable word use in amnesia during two different types of language production tasks. In Experiment 1, participants constructed narratives about events depicted in visually presented pictures (picture narratives). In Experiment 2, participants constructed verbal narratives about remembered events from the past or simulated events in the future (past/future narratives). Across all types of narratives, patients produced words that were rated as having similar levels of imageability compared to controls. Importantly, this was the case both in patients' picture narratives, which did not require generating details from episodic memory and were matched to those of controls with respect to narrative content, and in patients' narratives about past/future events, which required generating details from memory and which were reduced in narrative content compared to those of controls. These results distinguish between the quantity and quality of individual linguistic details produced in amnesia during narrative construction, and suggest that the use of imageable linguistic representations does not depend on intact episodic memory and can be supported by regions outside the hippocampus.

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