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The amnesic syndrome: Descriptions and explanations.

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Published1982
Citations157
References135

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Temporal Gradients in the Retrograde Amnesia of Patients With Alcoholic Korsakoff's Disease

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Memory for remote events in anterograde amnesia: Recognition of public figures from newsphotographs

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Recognition Memory in Amnesic Patients: Effect of Temporal Context and Familiarity of Material

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Sparing of short-term memory in an amnesic patient: Implications for strength theory of memory

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A study of forgetting in amnesic patients

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Memory deficits during electrical stimulation of the speech cortex in conscious man

1974 • 108 citations

Relationship Between the Wernicke and the Korsakoff Syndrome

1956 • 105 citations

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KORSAKOFF'S SYNDROME AFTER OPERATION ON RUPTURED ANEURYSM OF THE ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY

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The extent of memory loss in Korsakoff patients

1971 • 96 citations

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Verbal learning and retention by amnesic patients using partial information

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Organisational aspects of memory in amnesic patients

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1975 • 78 citations

Imagery as an Aid to Retrieval for Korsakoff Patients

1975 • 76 citations

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Long term memory for famous voices in amnesic and normal subjects

1980 • 68 citations

Recognition memory in amnesic patients: A defect of acquisition?

1977 • 68 citations

Alcoholic Korsakoff patients' retrieval from semantic memory

1978 • 68 citations

A similarity between amnesic memory and normal forgetting

1974 • 67 citations

Do amnesics adopt inefficient encoding strategies with faces and random shapes?

1980 • 63 citations

Depth of processing and retention of words by alcoholic Korsakoff patients.

1978 • 63 citations

A KORSAKOFF SYNDROME IN THE POST-CINGULECTOMY CONFUSIONAL STATE

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The effect of cuing on release from proactive interference in Korsakoff amnesic patients.

1981 • 62 citations

Anterograde amnesia and memory for temporal order

1981 • 61 citations

The Amnesic Syndrome

1977 • 59 citations

�ber einen Fall von doppelseitiger Fornicotomie bei sogenannter temporaler Epilepsie

1957 • 57 citations

Verbal retention deficits in aphasic and amnesic patients

1976 • 54 citations

A Comparison of the Information Processing Deficits of Patients with Huntington's Chorea and Korsakoff's Syndrome

1976 • 54 citations

Response competition and interference effects in paired-associate learning by Korsakoff amnesics

1980 • 50 citations

Rehearsal strategies of Alcoholic Korsakoff patients

1976 • 48 citations

Experimental Studies of the Organic Amnesic Syndrome

1977 • 41 citations

Practice and strategy in a measure of cerebral dominance

1975 • 40 citations

Effect of predistractor delays on the short-term memory performance of patients with Korsakoff's and Huntington's disease

1977 • 38 citations

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1979 • 33 citations

Long-Term Results of Fornicotomy for Temporal Epilepsy

1966 • 32 citations

A review of theories of human amnesia

1981 • 32 citations

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Effects of encoding instructions and retrieval cuing on recall in Korsakoff patients

1979 • 26 citations

Korsakoff patients' nonverbal vs verbal memory: Effects of interference and mediation on rate of information loss

1977 • 25 citations

Recall of life experiences in an alcoholic Korsakoff patient: A naturalistic approach

1980 • 24 citations

Disorders of Temporal Judgment Associated with Amnesic States

1950 • 21 citations

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1953 • 20 citations

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The section of the fornix in the surgical treatment of certain epilepsies; a preliminary report.

1954 • 15 citations

What is a cognitive map?

1979 • 8 citations

Distortions in Immediate Memory

1956 • 8 citations

Deficits in retrieval of category exemplars in alcoholic korsakoff patients

1981 • 5 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations

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