Role of Verbal Mediation in Performance of Motor Tasks by Korsakoff Patients
- 1 August 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 37 (1) , 259-262
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1973.37.1.259
Abstract
9 patients with Korsakoff's disease were examined for their ability to learn a finger maze (verbally mediated) and a pursuit-rotor (non-verbally mediated) task. Such patients (matched on IQ and age) were significantly worse than either 9 alcoholic or 9 normal control patients on the finger-maze task but were similar to both groups on the pursuit-rotor task. It was concluded that the verbal encoding deficit of Korsakoff patients can explain their difficulty in learning motor tasks involving verbal mediation.Keywords
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