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Tamas Sefcsik Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Dezso Nemeth Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Karolina Janacsek Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Ildiko Hoffmann Department of Linguistics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Jeff Scialabba Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

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Peter Klivenyi Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Geza Gergely Ambrus Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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Gabor Haden Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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Laszlo Vecsei Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Abstract

The role of the basal ganglia in cognition is still uncertain. This case study investigates the partial neuropsychological profile of a 20-year-old patient with a perinatal left putaminal lesion. This pathology is relatively rare and little is known of its cognitive effects. The focuses of our neuropsychological assessment were working memory, executive functions, analysis of spontaneous speech and implicit skill learning. The patient's executive functions did not attain the normal range, and working memory was also partially impaired. In addition, the temporal features of her speech revealed an increased pause/signal time ratio. Finally, in an implicit skill learning task, the patient showed general motor skill learning, but no sequence specific learning. Together these findings suggest that the frontal/subcortical circuit between the putamen and frontal motor areas plays a role in higher cognitive processing such as executive functions, working memory, as well as in first-order sequence learning.

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Learning & Perception
Language English
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Year of
Foundation
2009
Publication
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ceased
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per Year
 
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Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
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Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
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Publisher
Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 1789-3186 (Print)
ISSN 2060-9175 (Online)

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