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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Elward, Rachael L.
• Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh

Titel

Semantic memory in developmental amnesia

Ist Teil von

• Neuroscience letters, 2018-07, Vol.680, p.23-30

Ort / Verlag

Ireland: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Profile of patients with developmental amnesia and dissociations in cognitive memory.•Variables affecting semantic learning in developmental amnesia.•Differences between adult-onset versus early-onset amnesia. Patients with developmental amnesia resulting from bilateral hippocampal atrophy associated with neonatal hypoxia-ischaemia typically show relatively preserved semantic memory and factual knowledge about the natural world despite severe impairments in episodic memory. Understanding the neural and mnemonic processes that enable this context-free semantic knowledge to be acquired throughout development without the support of the contextualised episodic memory system is a serious challenge. This review describes the clinical presentation of patients with developmental amnesia, contrasts its features with those reported for adult-onset hippocampal amnesia, and analyses the effects of variables that influence the learning of new semantic information.