How Can We Best Explain Retrograde Amnesia in Human Memory Disorder?
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Memory
- Vol. 5 (1) , 115-130
- https://doi.org/10.1080/741941152
Abstract
I firstly consider general issues relating to our attempts to understand retrograde amnesia. Three main hypotheses are reviewed that have been proposed to account for retrograde amnesia. A theory is outlined to explain the dense autobiographical amnesia that is a focal phenomenon in some cases of severe head injury. This theory postulates that autobiographical retrieval requires the activation of a distributed network of cognitive operations, and that autobiographical amnesia results from the occurrence of multiple areas of pathology, distributed over both space and time.Keywords
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