• DOI:10.1016/0278-2626(88)90027-9
Corpus ID: 23026117

The impaired learning of semantic knowledge following bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection

@article{Gabrieli1988TheIL,
  title={The impaired learning of semantic knowledge following bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection},
  author={J. Gabrieli and N. Cohen and S. Corkin},
  journal={Brain and Cognition},
  year={1988},
  volume={7},
  pages={157-177}
}

J. Gabrieli, N. Cohen, S. Corkin

Published 1988

Psychology, Medicine

Brain and Cognition

The integrity of several aspects of semantic memory (including knowledge of the meaning, lexical status, perception, and pronunciation of words and famous names) was examined in H.M., a patient with anterograde amnesia following bilateral medial temporal-lobe excision. Despite normal memory for such semantic knowledge acquired prior to the onset of his amnesia in 1953, H.M. showed a severe deficit in memory for semantic information encountered subsequently. In combination with the previously… CONTINUE READING

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