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Automatie and Effortful Eneoding in Amnesia

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Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Anyone who has shared an afternoon with a patient who has anterograde amnesia comes away with two contrasting impressions: that the patient remembers little, and also that he remembers a lot more than one might expect. One patient whom we recently examined had a dense anterograde amnesia. He would tell the same story over and over again, could not remember his doctors from visit to visit, and failed to remember three unrelated words after 30 seconds of distraction. Nevertheless, he recounted in great detail arecent visit with his son, who told hirn at the time that he was thinking of dropping out of medical schoo!. His wife confirmed the story. His detailed and accurate remembrance was preserved even though a host of other memories was lost.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

    William Birst

  2. Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, 10021, USA

    Bruce T. Volpe

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Birst, W., Volpe, B.T. (1984). Automatie and Effortful Eneoding in Amnesia. In: Gazzaniga, M.S. (eds) Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2177-2_18

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