Coughlan A K, Warrington E K
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1981 Dec;44(12):1079-83. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.44.12.1079.
We report our investigations of a single patient in whom there was a selective impairment of semantic memory. She had a marked deficit of individual word comprehension although other language and linguistic skills were relatively preserved. Here we document that her failures in word comprehension were stable over a long time period. She made "phonological" errors in defining meanings, which we argue are analogous to "visual" errors in reading. On verbal learning tasks her performance was shown to be relatively preserved, a finding which provides evidence of the dissociation of verbal semantic memory and episodic (event) memory.
我们报告了对一名语义记忆存在选择性损伤的患者的研究情况。她在单个单词理解方面存在明显缺陷，尽管其他语言和语言技能相对保留。在此我们记录到，她在单词理解方面的失误在很长一段时间内是稳定的。她在定义词义时出现“语音”错误，我们认为这类似于阅读中的“视觉”错误。在言语学习任务中，她的表现相对保留，这一发现为言语语义记忆和情景（事件）记忆的分离提供了证据。
