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medial temporal amnesia

anterograde and retrograde amnesia caused by damage to the medial temporal lobe. Causes include infarction of the posterior cerebral artery, anoxia, encephalitis, temporal lobectomy, and trauma. See amnestic disorder.

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texture segregation task

any detection task in which the figure to be detected is defined by textural elements so that it must be distinguished from some background pattern of a different texture.