Mnemonic Precedence in Amnesic Patients: An Analogue of the AB Error in Infants?
Child DevelopmentPublished 1 June 1986
Daniel L. Schacter, Morris Moscovitch, Endel Tubing, D. R. Crapper McLachlan, Morris Freedman
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The parallel performance of amnesics and infants on object search tasks is consistent with the hypothesis that memory deficit, rather than defective object concept, plays a major role in the AB error.
Abstract
Amnesic patients were able to retrieve an object hidden at an initial location after a brief delay, but subsequently failed to retrieve an object at a new location, and instead searched for it at the old place. This phenomenon, which we call mnemonic precedence, resembles the AB error that has been observed in 8-10-month-old infants. The parallel performance of amnesics and infants on object search tasks is consistent with the hypothesis that memory deficit, rather than defective object concept, plays a major role in the AB error. The influence of memory processes on tests of symbolic representation is discussed.
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