1996
DOI: 10.1080/13825589608256622
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Can cognitive aging contribute to fundamental psychological theory? Repetition deafness as a test case

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“…According to these theories, the hippocampus is thought to have a pivotal role for memory, but not language. Distributed‐memory theories, conversely, propose that verbal memory depends on the pattern and strength of connections between a very large number of neural units that are distributed through a vast activation network and that are also important for language production (68–71). These conclusions are based, in part, on findings from the patient H.M. (who had a bilateral mesial temporal lobe resection); although most previous literature has emphasized H.M.'s anterograde memory deficits (72,73), recent language studies (71,74) indicated that many of his language skills are impaired and have been so since early 1970s.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to these theories, the hippocampus is thought to have a pivotal role for memory, but not language. Distributed‐memory theories, conversely, propose that verbal memory depends on the pattern and strength of connections between a very large number of neural units that are distributed through a vast activation network and that are also important for language production (68–71). These conclusions are based, in part, on findings from the patient H.M. (who had a bilateral mesial temporal lobe resection); although most previous literature has emphasized H.M.'s anterograde memory deficits (72,73), recent language studies (71,74) indicated that many of his language skills are impaired and have been so since early 1970s.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Within this "distributed-memory" framework (e.g., Carpenter, & Grossberg, 1993;Grafman, & Weingartner, 1996;McClelland, McNaughton, & O'Reilly, 1995;MacKay & Miller, 1996), memory for verbal materials is not localized within discrete or isolable stages or modules (e.g., for short-term versus long-term memory) but depends fundamentally on the strength of connections between millions of neural units or nodes distributed throughout a vast interactive activation network. To illustrate this distributed-memory framework and its relation to language comprehension, we will focus on one from among many recently developed and equally viable distributed-memory accounts.…”
Section: Why Hm's Language Comprehension Is Theoretically Importantmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Why is ambiguity detection so difªcult, especially for older adults, and even more so for H.M.? Ambiguity detection always requires the formation of two sets of new connections from the same set of nodes (see Figures 3a and 3b), and young adults under extreme time pressure are known to experience difªculty with this double connection process (see, e.g., MacKay & Miller, 1996). Moreover, this double connection process causes greater difªculty for older than young adults (see MacKay, Miller, & Schuster, 1994) because older adults suffer from a general deªcit in the ability to form new connections that is not speciªc to hippocampal functioning (for recent reviews, see MacKay & Abrams, 1996;and Burke & MacKay, 1997).…”
Section: Does Hm Have a Language Comprehension Deªcit?mentioning
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“…Or if a prosodic pause follows dog, as in, ''Watson fed her dog______ biscuits'', listeners quickly link her and dog to form a quite different proposition. However, equal-length pauses after her and biscuits slow comprehension and impair immediate recall (see MacKay & Miller, 1996).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%