Acquisition of post-morbid vocabulary and semantic facts in the absence of episodic memory.

摘要: Disagreement exists in the literature over whether it is possible for new semantic (factual) information to be learned absence of episodic (event) memory. We report case R.S., a 49-year-old amnesic man, who we found have acquired about famous people, public events and vocabulary during 13-year period since he became amnesic, despite having no measurable anterograde memory function profound loss autobiographical These data suggest that at least some severe amnesics are able acquire knowledge, provided critical temporal neocortical regions spared. discuss these findings context recent connectionist models