Acute effect of anterior temporal lobectomy on musical processing

Neu,op\pcholoyirr.

Vol.

29, No

1. pp.

703-70X.

002X-3932/91

1991

S3.00f0.00

PergamonPress plc

Printed I” Great Britain.

NOTE ACUTE

EFFECT

OF ANTERIOR

TEMPORAL PROCESSING

LOBECTOMY

ON MUSICAL

D. BRIAN KESTEK,* ANDREW J. SAYKIN,*~ MICHAEL R. SPERLING,$ MICHAEL J. O’CONNOR,§ LINDSEY J. ROBINSON* and RUBEN C. CUR* *Brain Behavior Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; IComprehensive Epilepsy Center, Graduate Hospital and the Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; and #Division of Neurosurgery, Graduate Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (Receioed 21 February 1990; accepted 17 December 1990) Abstract-Patients with intractable epilepsy treated by anterior temporal lobectomy (Right, RT, n= 12; Left, LT, n=9) and healthy controls (n= 12) with no musical training were prospectively evaluated with a standardized battery, including the Musical Aptitude Profile and the Seashore Tonal Memory Test. Before surgery, patients performed below controls (P