Smith M L
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, PQ.
Brain Cogn. 1988 Apr;7(2):178-83. doi: 10.1016/0278-2626(88)90028-0.
The amnesic patient H.M. was tested for immediate recall of the location of objects in an array. Three array-sizes were used: 16, 7, or 4 objects. With 16 objects, H.M.'s performance was at chance level; with the smaller arrays, his performance was above chance, but still well below the levels achieved by age-matched control subjects. The ability to recall location by H.M. did not differ under incidental and intentional learning conditions, thus failing to support the notion that automatic encoding skills may be selectively disrupted in amnesia.
失忆症患者H.M.接受了对数组中物体位置的即时回忆测试。使用了三种数组大小：16个、7个或4个物体。对于16个物体的情况，H.M.的表现处于随机水平；对于较小的数组，他的表现高于随机水平，但仍远低于年龄匹配的对照组受试者所达到的水平。H.M.回忆位置的能力在附带学习和有意学习条件下没有差异，因此不支持自动编码技能可能在失忆症中被选择性破坏的观点。
