A deficit in the short-term retention of lexical-semantic information: forgetting words but remembering a story.
This article examines the long-term memory of a patient, AB, who had previously been reported to have problems in the short-term retention of word meanings. The authors found that AB had a problem not only in the short-term but also in the long-term retention of lexical-semantic information. AB, however, had no problem in the long-term retention of other kinds of information (pictures, shapes, propositional information). This pattern of results was interpreted as evidence that lexical-semantic representations have their own specific memory resources that are involved in the retention of the corresponding representations across different time intervals (e.g., they are involved in short-term as well as long-term retention). Implications for models of memory are discussed.
Romani
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C
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. c.romani@bham.ac.uk
Martin
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R
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000647:Amnesia / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception