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Gardiner JM, Brandt KR, Vargha-Khadem F, et al. Effects of level of processing but not of task enactment on recognition memory in a case of developmental amnesia. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2006;23(6):930-48doi: 10.1080/02643290600588442.
Gardiner, J. M., Brandt, K. R., Vargha-Khadem, F., Baddeley, A., & Mishkin, M. (2006). Effects of level of processing but not of task enactment on recognition memory in a case of developmental amnesia. Cognitive neuropsychology, 23(6), 930-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643290600588442
Gardiner, John M, et al. "Effects of level of processing but not of task enactment on recognition memory in a case of developmental amnesia." Cognitive neuropsychology vol. 23,6 (2006): 930-48. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02643290600588442
Gardiner JM, Brandt KR, Vargha-Khadem F, Baddeley A, Mishkin M. Effects of level of processing but not of task enactment on recognition memory in a case of developmental amnesia. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2006 Sep;23(6):930-48. doi: 10.1080/02643290600588442. PMID: 21049360.
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Cogn Neuropsychol. 2006 Sep;23(6):930-48. doi: 10.1080/02643290600588442.

Effects of level of processing but not of task enactment on recognition memory in a case of developmental amnesia.

Cognitive neuropsychology

John M Gardiner, Karen R Brandt, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Alan Baddeley, Mortimer Mishkin

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  1. University of Sussex, Sussex, Brighton, UK.

PMID: 21049360 DOI: 10.1080/02643290600588442

Abstract

We report the performance in four recognition memory experiments of Jon, a young adult with early-onset developmental amnesia whose episodic memory is gravely impaired in tests of recall, but seems relatively preserved in tests of recognition, and who has developed normal levels of performance in tests of intelligence and general knowledge. Jon's recognition performance was enhanced by deeper levels of processing in comparing a more meaningful study task with a less meaningful one, but not by task enactment in comparing performance of an action with reading an action phrase. Both of these variables normally enhance episodic remembering, which Jon claimed to experience. But Jon was unable to support that claim by recollecting what it was that he remembered. Taken altogether, the findings strongly imply that Jon's recognition performance entailed little genuine episodic remembering and that the levels-of-processing effects in Jon reflected semantic, not episodic, memory.

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