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Preferred term

patient K.C.  

Definition

  • A Canadian patient (Kent Cochrane - 1951-2014) who suffered from severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia for personal episodes after a traumatic brain injury following a traffic accident. He was studied by memory researchers for over 20 years.

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • K.C. case
  • N.N. case
  • patient N.N.

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Barbeau, E. J., Ronat, L., & Didic, M. (2020). Études de cas et neuropsychologie de la mémoire : Et maintenant, c’est fini ? Revue de neuropsychologie, 12(1), 19‑25. https://doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2020.0536

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Eustache, F. (2014). Mémoire épisodique et mémoire sémantique: Du patient amnésique KC à la démence sémantique. Revue de neuropsychologie, 6(2), 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2014.0303

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Rosenbaum, R. S., Köhler, S., Schacter, D. L., Moscovitch, M., Westmacott, R., Black, S. E., Gao, F., & Tulving, E. (2005). The case of K.C.: Contributions of a memory-impaired person to memory theory. Neuropsychologia, 43(7), 989–1021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.10.007

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Tulving, E. (1985). Memory and consciousness. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 26(1), 1‑12. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0080017

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Tulving, E., Schacter, D. L., McLachlan, D. R., & Moscovitch, M. (1988). Priming of semantic autobiographical knowledge: A case study of retrograde amnesia. Brain and Cognition, 8(1), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-2626(88)90035-8

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-V31CXM91-G

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