Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Role of Cerebellum and Prefrontal Cortex in Memory01:14

Role of Cerebellum and Prefrontal Cortex in Memory

The cerebellum, while traditionally associated with motor control, also plays a crucial role in memory, particularly in procedural memory, which involves learning motor tasks that become automatic through repetition. For example, studies have shown that when the cerebellum is damaged, individuals or animals lose the ability to learn conditioned motor responses, such as the conditioned eye-blink response in classical conditioning experiments with rabbits. This study demonstrates the cerebellum's...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Adaptive and Behavioral Phenotype in Pediatric 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Characterizing a High-Risk Neurogenetic Copy Number Variant.

Genes·2026
Same author

Endogenous orienting of attention in rats.

Physiology & behavior·2026
Same author

Is a deficit in facial emotion recognition a predictor of risky alcohol use in young adults?

Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)·2025
Same author

Auditory Electrophysiology of an Adolescent with Both Language and Learning Disorders.

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)·2025
Same author

Higher testosterone level is associated with improved cognitive functions in Klinefelter syndrome.

Andrology·2025
Same author

New Strategies for Studies With Families in Borderline Personality Disorder: Challenges and Potentialities of the Use of Genogram.

Journal of marital and family therapy·2025

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jun 20, 2026

Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms
07:31

Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms

Published on: February 8, 2019

Categorization skills and recall in brain damaged children: a multiple case study.

Claudia Berlim de Mello1, Mauro Muszkat, Gilberto Fernando Xavier

  • 1Departamento de Psicobiologia, Centro Paulista de Neuropsicologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. cberlim@ib.usp.br

Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|September 2, 2009
PubMed
Summary

Childhood brain damage can impair categorical association and memory recall. Specific deficits depend on lesion timing and type, highlighting the need for targeted assessments beyond traditional neuropsychological tests.

More Related Videos

Use of an Eight-arm Radial Water Maze to Assess Working and Reference Memory Following Neonatal Brain Injury
08:09

Use of an Eight-arm Radial Water Maze to Assess Working and Reference Memory Following Neonatal Brain Injury

Published on: December 4, 2013

The Dig Task: A Simple Scent Discrimination Reveals Deficits Following Frontal Brain Damage
11:16

The Dig Task: A Simple Scent Discrimination Reveals Deficits Following Frontal Brain Damage

Published on: January 4, 2013

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jun 20, 2026

Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms
07:31

Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms

Published on: February 8, 2019

Use of an Eight-arm Radial Water Maze to Assess Working and Reference Memory Following Neonatal Brain Injury
08:09

Use of an Eight-arm Radial Water Maze to Assess Working and Reference Memory Following Neonatal Brain Injury

Published on: December 4, 2013

The Dig Task: A Simple Scent Discrimination Reveals Deficits Following Frontal Brain Damage
11:16

The Dig Task: A Simple Scent Discrimination Reveals Deficits Following Frontal Brain Damage

Published on: January 4, 2013

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Pediatric Neurology

Background:

  • Children develop the ability to form categorical associations and use them for memory recall.
  • Childhood brain damage can disrupt these developmental processes.
  • Traditional neuropsychological tests may not fully capture these specific cognitive deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate categorical association of stimuli and memory recall in children with brain damage.
  • To explore how lesion characteristics (etiology, topography, timing) influence these cognitive functions.
  • To determine if deficits are identifiable using specialized tasks beyond standard assessments.

Main Methods:

  • Studied four children with diverse brain lesions.
  • Administered tasks involving naming, immediate, delayed, and cued recall of related figures.
  • Included free sorting tasks and traditional neuropsychological assessments.

Main Results:

  • Children with middle childhood lesions relied on perceptual rather than categorical associations.
  • These children showed deficits in delayed or cued recall.
  • One child had normal recall despite categorical association deficits, suggesting varied impacts.

Conclusions:

  • Brain-damaged children can exhibit deficits in categorization and recall not detected by traditional tests.
  • Lesion timing influences the reliance on perceptual versus categorical associations.
  • Specialized assessments are crucial for identifying nuanced cognitive impairments in pediatric brain injury.