Category learning. Learning the general but not the specific.
Amnesia patients have a normal ability to learn categories from examples, even though they fail to learn the examples themselves; computational models of brain function suggest how and why.
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
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