Material-specific memory deficits in alcoholic Korsakoff patients

TL;DR: An overview of empirical research on cognitive dysfunctions characteristic of alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome is presented, suggesting that damage in mammillary regions and the thalamus are determinants of amnesic symptoms, whereas observed executive Dysfunctions more likely result from damage in the prefrontal lobe.

TL;DR: The findings revealed that each Korsakoff patient successfully applies at least some of the procedures subserving the word-learning process to the new lexical domain and subsequently acquire little of the factual knowledge represented by the new word.

TL;DR: Detailed analysis of the Korsakoff results indicate that while some forms of semantic organization are impaired, the ability to use associative structure remains intact.

TL;DR: For both groups the ability to process simple prose does not seem to be severely impaired when what is recalled rather than how much is recalled is measured.

TL;DR: The Occurrence of Clustering in the Recall of Randomly Arranged Associates as mentioned in this paper is a well-known phenomenon in the recall of randomly arranged associates, and it has been studied extensively.

TL;DR: The Association Value of Three-Place Consonant Syllables as discussed by the authors has been used as an indicator of the importance of conconant syllables in the three-place consensus.

TL;DR: Four experiments were designed to determine the extent of Korsakoff patients' ability to encode semantically meaningful verbal material, and demonstrated that these patients are aided by category cues following a one min retention interval.