The perceptual priming phenomenon in amnesia

Alcoholic Korsakoff patients and controls were given three variants of a priming task. In the first task, a study list of words was followed by a recognition test phase and then a perceptual identification test phase. In the second task, the order of the two test phases was reversed. The amnesics pe...

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Published in:Neuropsychologia 1985, Vol.23 (5), p.615-622
Main Authors: Cermak, Laird S., Talbot, Nancy, Chandler, Karen, Wolbarst, Lynn Reale
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcohol Amnestic Disorder - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Conditioning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Male
Memory
Middle Aged
Models, Psychological
Psychological Theory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Semantics
Verbal Behavior
Visual Perception
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Summary:Alcoholic Korsakoff patients and controls were given three variants of a priming task. In the first task, a study list of words was followed by a recognition test phase and then a perceptual identification test phase. In the second task, the order of the two test phases was reversed. The amnesics performed like normals on the priming for identification task and the delay did not affect their performance. However, recognition by amnesics was significantly impaired when the delay was introduced; although it too was normal with no delay. In a third task, pseudowords were used as stimuli. Under these conditions the amnesics could not be primed nor could they recognize the material. The implications of these findings for current theories of amnesia were discussed.
ISSN:0028-3932
1873-3514
DOI:10.1016/0028-3932(85)90063-6