ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the effects of temporal lobectomy are of the latter kind in that the most powerful source of variance is neurological—lying, in this case, in the hands of the neurosurgeon rather than in the hands of the psychologist. The principal psychological findings on the effects of such neurosurgery have been made by Dr. Brenda Milner of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Dr. Victor Meyer, formerly of the Guys-Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit in London, England. While Meyer made these findings in London, parallel but independent investigations were continuing at the Montreal Neurological Institute. It is perhaps significant that, in his own preliminary review of the literature, Meyer paid most attention to the effects of temporal lobe dysfunction in man. The inclusion of such control subjects, of course, represented an advance on the design of the studies reported by Meyer. Meyer and Falconer studied eight patients with space-occupying lesions or scarring of the temporal lobe.
