Cases of Amnesia (eBook, ePUB)

Contributions to Understanding Memory and the Brain
Redaktion: MacPherson, Sarah E.; Della Sala, Sergio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents new case studies of amnesic patients, and re-examines classic cases in the light of recent findings, to show the major contribution they make to our understanding of human memory and neuropsychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429657047
• Artikelnr.: 59296017

Autorenporträt

Sarah E. MacPherson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neuropsychological investigations of executive abilities, memory and emotional and social functioning in healthy and pathological ageing and damaged brains. Sergio Della Sala is Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests consider the relationship between brain and behaviour, including human memory from a neuropsychological perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Tim Shallice. The single-case study of
memory........................................................
Chapter 2. Donald G. MacKay. The earthquake that reshaped the intellectual
landscape of memory, mind and brain: Case
H.M.............................................................................................
Chapter 3. Juliet Holdstock, Nicola M. Hunkin, Claire L. Isaac and Andrew
R. Mayes. The case of YR: selective bilateral hippocampal lesions can have
quite different effects on item recognition, associative recognition and
recall............................................................................
Chapter 4. Carina Tudor-Sfetea and Lisa Cipolotti. Amnesic patient VC: what
have we learnt from
him?.........................................................................................................
Chapter 5. Michael D Kopelman and John Morton. What did amnesic actor AB
teach us about learning his lines?
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Chapter 6. Narinder Kapur and Steven Kemp. Cases of hippocampal memory
loss: Dr Z, the engineer and the glove cutter.
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Chapter 7. Chris J.A. Moulin. Persistent déjà vu, recollective
confabulation and the case of patient
AKP.........................................................................................................
Chapter 8. R. Shayna Rosenbaum and Morris Moscovitch. Case KC (Kent
Cochrane) and his contributions to research and theory on memory and
related, non-memory functions......
Chapter 9. Liliann Manning. Right is right for episodic memories in two
contrasting case-studies, CH and JR: focal retrograde amnesia and public
semantic amnesia..........................
Chapter 10. Elliott D. Ross. Sensory-specific visual amnesia (Cases 1 and
2): An acquired visual-limbic disconnection
syndrome.....................................................................................................
Chapter 11. Michaela Dewar. Yes, I remember'- apparent consolidation under
conditions of minimal sensory input in a case of severe anterograde
amnesia: Case PB............................
Chapter 12. John Baker, Sharon Savage and Adam Zeman. VA: a case report of
Transient Epileptic
Amnesia............................................................................................................................
Chapter 13. Giuseppe Vallar. A "purest" impairment of verbal short term
memory. The case of PV and the phonological short-term input store.
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Chapter 14. Randi C. Martin. Semantic short-term memory and its role in
sentence processing and long-term memory: Evidence from cases AB and
ML..........................................................
Chapter 15. Julie Snowden. Interrelationship between semantic memory and
personal experience: evidence from semantic dementia patients EK and
WM.....................................
Chapter 16. Peter Garrard, John R. Hodges, Vijeya Ganesan and Karalyn
Patterson. Iris Murdoch: days without
writing.....................................................................................................
Chapter 17. Nelson Cowan and Candice C. Morey. The wealth of evidence from
brain lesions affecting memory: How should we use
it?...................................................................................
Chapter 18. Roberto Cubelli. Biases and concerns with the single case
approach in the neuropsychology of
memory.....................................................................................................
Chapter 19. Simon Fischer-Baum and Yingxue Tian. The case for single case
studies in memory
research............................................................................................................................................
Chapter 20. Max Coltheart. Comments on the single-case approach to the
study of memory and other domains of
cognition....................................................................................................