PRESERVED PRIMING OF NOVEL OBJECTS ACROSS SIZE TRANSFORMATION IN AMNESIC PATIENTS

被引:45
作者
SCHACTER, DL
COOPER, LA
TREADWELL, J
机构
[1] VET ADM MED CTR JAMAICA PLAIN, MEMORY DISORDERS RES CTR, BOSTON, MA 02130 USA
[2] COLUMBIA UNIV, NEW YORK, NY 10027 USA
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D O I
10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00574.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Previous research has indicated that amnesic patients can show normal priming of novel objects on a decision task in which subjects decide whether unfamiliar structures could or could not exist in the three-dimensional world. The present experiment reveals that amnesic patients exhibit normal priming on this task across a study-to-test size transformation despite impaired explicit memory. These results suggest that priming of novel objects in amnesia depends on a spared structural description system that computes size-invariant representations of visual objects.
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页码:331 / 335
页数:5
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