Publications by authors named "Lydia Unterberger"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates a patient with unique memory dissociations following surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy, focusing on how his autobiographical episodic memory is preserved while semantic memory for public knowledge is impaired.
- The patient demonstrated difficulty recalling past public events and imagining future scenarios, despite being able to maintain personal episodic memory, indicating a specific issue with accessing public semantic knowledge.
- Neuroimaging results supported that personal significance plays a key role in memory retrieval, suggesting that the patient utilized autobiographical memory to access past public knowledge while lacking the ability to recall impersonal future events.
