The abstraction of a central tendency in amnesic patients.
Amnesic patients and control subjects were asked to reproduce arm movements of a given amplitude and to average amplitudes on series of three such movements. The error in averaging was found to be equal in patients and control subjects while reproduction performance was clearly affected by amnesia. The implications of these data for a theory of amnesia are briefly discussed.
Van der Linden
M
M
Unité de Neuropsychologie Cognitive, NECO, Université de Louvain.
Lories
G
G
Cornille
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D000647:Amnesia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001132:Arm / Q000502:physiology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests