Compensating for Language Deficits in Amnesia II: H.M.'s Spared versus Impaired Encoding Categories.

ABSTRACT: Although amnesic H.M. typically could not recall where or when he met someone, he could recall their topics of conversation after long interference-filled delays, suggesting impaired encoding for some categories of novel events but not others. Similarly, H.M. successfully encoded into internal representations (sentence plans) some novel linguistic structures but not others in the present language production studies. For example, on the Test of Language Competence (TLC), H.M. produced uncorrected errors when encoding a wide range of novel linguistic structures, e.g., violating reliably more gender constraints than memory-normal controls when encoding referent-noun, pronoun-antecedent, and referent-pronoun anaphora, as when he erroneously and without correction used the gender-inappropriate

SUBMITTER: MacKay DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4061850 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature