ORGANIZATION OF MEMORY TRACES IN THE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME
- 1 March 1938
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 39 (3) , 482-487
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1938.02270030060004
Abstract
Karsten1studied psychic saturation by directing normal subjects to perform simple drawings, like fence pickets, and simple designs continuously until the subjects were completely exhausted and refused to go on. She found dissolution of the original configuration in the course of such an experiment. The drawing became disorderly and loosely connected, devoid of definite boundaries and broken up into little independent fragments, and the larger portions were disintegrated. Two of us (F. J. C. and P. S.)2who studied verbal material with a similar method, found evidence of organizing forces and active processes during repetition of the recall of a story told once to the patient. In cases of organic memory disturbances, the evidence of acceleration and exaggeration of organizing processes was striking. A series of patients with Korsakoff's syndrome were examined during this investigation. One of us (L. B.) had collected a large mass of material concerningKeywords
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