Encoding specificity in the alcoholic Korsakoff patient |
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Authors: | Laird S Cermak Barbara Uhly Lynn Reale |
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Affiliation: | 1. Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine USA;2. Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine USA |
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Abstract: | A previous attempt to improve amnesic Korsakoff patients' retention of individual words resulted in only moderate improvement and, then, only under restricted conditions. It appeared that this occurred because the patients “forget” the instructed analysis of the word as well as the word itself. Consequently, the two experiments reported here sought to provide feature (Experiment 1) or associated (Experiment 2) cues at both input and output. In this manner relatively good performance was obtained, but only when semantic cues were “strongly” associated to the target words. Implications for an encoding specificity interpretation are drawn from these results. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Laird S. Cermak Psychology Service Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center 150 South Huntington Avenue Boston MA 02130. |
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