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Priming of semantic autobiographical knowledge: A case study of retrograde amnesia

Tulving, Endel, Schacter, Daniel L., McLachlan, Donald R., Moscovitch, Morris·1988·Brain and Cognition

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The case of a 36-year-old man who suffers dense retrograde and anterograde amnesia as a result of closed-head injury that caused extensive damage to his left frontal-parietal and right parieto-occipital lobes is described. Patient K.C. has normal intelligence and relatively well-preserved perceptual, linguistic, short-term memory, and reasoning abilities. He possesses some fragmentary general knowledge about his autobiographical past, but he does not remember a single personal event or happening from any time of his life. He has some preserved expert knowledge related to the work he did for 3 years before the onset of amnesia, although he has no personal recollections from that period. Some features of K.C.'s retrograde amnesia can be interpreted in terms of the distinction between episodic and semantic memory, and in terms of the distinction between episodic and semantic autobiographical knowledge. K.C.'s semantic knowledge, but not his episodic knowledge, showed progressive improvement, or priming, in the course of the investigation.

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  • In patients with hippocampal damage, semantic memory largely remains intact but severe deficits in episodic memory are observed.

    “This separation is true of other amnesic patients, especially those resulting from hippocampal damage, whereby semantic memory largely remains intact but severe deficits in episodic memory are observed [6–9].”

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Authors
Tulving, E., Schacter, D. L., McLachlan, D. R., & Moscovitch, M.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Tulving, Endel
Venue
Brain and Cognition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1988-08
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
3-20
ISSN
0278-2626 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1982713570
Cited by
312
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 18
FWCI
3.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Brain and Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
retrograde amnesia, semantic memory, autobiographical memory, episodic memory, semantic priming, closed head injury, expert knowledge, memory recovery
MeSH terms
Adult, Amnesia, Amnesia, Retrograde, Autobiographies as Topic, Brain, Cues, Humans, Male, Radiography, Semantics

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