Training the short- and long-term verbal recall of a postencephalitic amnesic.
After encephalitis, a professor showed gross deficits in remembering new information. Both short- and long-term recall, as measured by free recall of word lists, were affected. Memory-training tasks directed at each of these two components were introduced according to a multiple-baseline experimental design. Each recall component increased only when corresponding training began.
D000647:Amnesia / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D014706:Verbal Learning