Memory retraining in brain-damaged patients: the airplane list.
Recall failures can be traced to inadequate encoding and unfocussed retrieval search. A method is given for encouraging deep and elaborate encoding of a list of words, and two brain-damaged patients who were unable to recall the list at first, were shown to retrieve many of the words when retrieval cues were given by the examiner.
D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D014706:Verbal Learning