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Ribot's law

A scientific law of memory deterioration stipulating that "the progressive destruction of memory follows a logical order — a law. It advances progressively from the unstable to fhe stable. It begins with the most recent recollections, which, lightly impressed upon the nervous elements, rarely repeated and consequently having no permanent associations, represent organization in its feeblest form. It ends with the sensorial, instinctive memory, which, become a permanent and integral part of the organism, represents organization in its most highly developed stage." (Ribot, Th., Diseases of memory, 1881/1882, p.121-122).

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Ribot's gradient

Bibliographic citation(s)

• Nicolas, S. (1997). La loi de Ribot : L'application de la doctrine évolutionniste à l'étude neuropsychologique de la mémoire. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 7(4), 377-410.

• Document type: historical study
, literature review

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• Ribot, Th (1881). Les maladies de la mémoire. Alcan.

• Document type: literature review

• Access: closed
• Ribot, Theodule. (1881/1887). Diseases of memory: An essay in the positive psychology. D. Appleton and Company.

• Document type: literature review

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• Wixted, J. T. (2004). On common ground: Jost’s (1897) law of forgetting and Ribot’s (1881) law of retrograde amnesia. Psychological Review, 111(4), 864–879. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.111.4.864

• Document type: literature review

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Frank Arnould

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loi de Ribot

French
gradient de Ribot
loi de régression
loi de réversion

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-R6T91FCL-0

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