The problem with amnesia: The problem with human memory
Titel:
The problem with amnesia: The problem with human memory
Auteur:
Morton, John
Verschenen in:
Cognitive neuropsychology
Paginering:
Jaargang 2 (1985) nr. 3 pagina's 281-290
Jaar:
1985-08-01
Inhoud:
A commentary on Human Memory and Amnesia, edited by L. A. Cermak. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. 1982, ISBN 0-89859-095-7, £41.65, $50.00. This book is notionally the record of a meeting, held in 1979, which was intended to bridge the gap between researchers working on normal memory processing and those studying the amnesic syndrome. Most of the Western world's work on amnesia is represented here and I was grateful to have good summaries of the individual research efforts in an easily digestible form. A spirit of reconciliation was clearly in the New England air, and a number of the authors were at pains to try and explain why different laboratories have, in the past, come to different conclusions. This effort included a good deal of methodological criticism of others but, although the chapters in the book were meant to have been written after the discussion, it is clear that a number of them were not revised; some quite severe criticisms remain unanswered. Correspondingly, on the editorial side, it is odd to find authors giving detailed accounts of another's research when this research, sometimes with a number of graphs, is described on another page by the original author, but without any cross-referencing.
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