INVESTIGATION OF AMNESIC DEFECTS BY PROGRESSIVE PROMPTING

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The technic studies the accessibility of memories in relation to the total amt. of material remembered. In memory failure progressive promptings by means of a series of silhouettes graded from ink-blot to recognizable animal were used until the original situation was reconstructed. The memory of amnesics is less accessible than normal memory but this alone cannot account for all of the material forgotten. Accessibility decreases with lapse of time more quickly in amnesics than in controls. The speed of loss is more fundamental than the inaccessibility itself.

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