TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1979//
TI  - Mental imagery, human memory, and the effects of closed head injury
JO  - British journal of social and clinical psychology
A1  - Richardson, J. T.
SP  - 319
EP  - 327
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
N2  - Several recent experiments suggest that mental imagery is relevant to an explanation of memory impairment resulting from neurological damage. This study compared a group of patients with recent closed head injuries with a control group of orthopaedic patients in their recall of concrete and abstract words. The head-injured subjects demonstrated a specific deficit in the recall of concrete material, which was interpreted as an impairment in the use of mental imagery as a form of elaborative encoding in long-term memory. It is suggested that the understanding of clinical conditions would be assisted by the application of the procedures and theoretical interests of experimental psychology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1293
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -