Patients with semantic memory loss: Can they relearn lost concepts?

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Abstract
This paper describes a clinical investigation into the learning capacity of a patient with semantic memory loss. With considerable repetition this patient was able to relearn some semantic information. He was more successful at learning semantic information with which he had been familiar prior to his illness than at learning new information. The implications of these observations for the nature of semantic memory impairment, and for rehabilitation of such patients is discussed.