Abstract
In their comment on the article by S. B. Hamann, L. R. Squire, and D. L. Schacter (1995), A. L. Ostergaard and T. L. Jernigan (1996) reaffirmed their position that baseline perceptual identification performance and priming are impaired in amnesia. They also suggested certain shortcomings in the experiments of Hamann et al., who found normal baseline performance and normal priming in amnesia across a wide range of performance accuracies. In reply, the authors of this article suggest that the position of Ostergaard and Jernigan rests on selective consideration of data, inaccurate assumptions concerning 1 patient's priming performance (A.B.), and debatable concerns about the masking stimuli, ceiling effects, and presentation time of study items that were used. In addition, the authors of the present article suggest that Ostergaard and Jernigan have based their own experimental work on a task and test method that may not be optimal for studying priming.
Keywords
PsychologyPriming (agriculture)PerceptionAmnesiaRepetition (rhetorical device)Cognitive psychologyNeuroscience
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- 131-135
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Larry R. Squire,
Stephan Hamann,
Daniel L. Schacter
(1996).
Intact baseline performance and priming in amnesia: Reply to Ostergaard and Jernigan..
Neuropsychology
, 10
(1)
, 131-135.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.10.1.131
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- 10.1037/0894-4105.10.1.131