Abstract
Reports the case of a male patient (aged 50+ yrs) who developed a severe and
selective amnesia for names and dates associated with events after he suffered
cerebral anoxia following heart failure. The Subject's memory abilities were
tested using experimental tasks which assessed the recall of autobiographical
memories, public events, and the acquisition of newly learned material. 10 age-
and education-matched normal controls (mean age 51 yrs) were also tested. The
Subject's amnesia was temporally limited, affecting only the last 2 to 3 decades
of his life. When recalling an event he was able to evoke both its content and
place, while he could not provide any information about people nor the time
of its occurrence. His performance on event-memory tests was consistent across
the type of material used (personal and public events) or the period of life
investigated. Results suggest that knowledge of an episode is specified across
multiple representations.
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Maintained by Francis F. Steen, Communication Studies, University of California Los Angeles |