Naïve beliefs about the natural world in a case of childhood onset amnesia
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Winter, William
Abstract / Description
The individual profiled here (M.S.) suffered an episode of severe oxygen deprivation (anoxia) at the age of eight, damaging memory relevant structures in the mid-temporal lobes, including the hippocampus bilaterally. The resulting anterograde amnesia was characterized by profound deficits in autobiographical memory, but also a compromised ability to acquire new facts and information (semantic memory), resulting in the formation of idiosyncratic and naïve beliefs about the natural world that have persisted into his adult years. This article presents an interview with M.S. in which many of these idiosyncratic beliefs are detailed, and argues that they can be broadly viewed as the interaction of; 1) intact frontal lobe functioning that supports the application of rational analysis to his lived experience, and 2) an impoverished factual knowledge base upon which to construct sophisticated and evidence-based models of his lived experience and of natural world processes.
Keyword(s)
amnesia childhood onset naïve beliefsPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-10-28
Journal title
Psychological Thought
Volume
9
Issue
2
Page numbers
259–271
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Winter, W. (2016). Naïve beliefs about the natural world in a case of childhood onset amnesia. Psychological Thought, 9(2), 259–271. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v9i2.180
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Winter, William
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Date of first publication2016-10-28
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Abstract / DescriptionThe individual profiled here (M.S.) suffered an episode of severe oxygen deprivation (anoxia) at the age of eight, damaging memory relevant structures in the mid-temporal lobes, including the hippocampus bilaterally. The resulting anterograde amnesia was characterized by profound deficits in autobiographical memory, but also a compromised ability to acquire new facts and information (semantic memory), resulting in the formation of idiosyncratic and naïve beliefs about the natural world that have persisted into his adult years. This article presents an interview with M.S. in which many of these idiosyncratic beliefs are detailed, and argues that they can be broadly viewed as the interaction of; 1) intact frontal lobe functioning that supports the application of rational analysis to his lived experience, and 2) an impoverished factual knowledge base upon which to construct sophisticated and evidence-based models of his lived experience and of natural world processes.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationWinter, W. (2016). Naïve beliefs about the natural world in a case of childhood onset amnesia. Psychological Thought, 9(2), 259–271. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v9i2.180en_US
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ISSN2193-7281
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1622
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1988
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v9i2.180
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Keyword(s)amnesiaen_US
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Keyword(s)childhood onseten_US
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Keyword(s)naïve beliefsen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleNaïve beliefs about the natural world in a case of childhood onset amnesiaen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titlePsychological Thought
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Page numbers259–271
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Volume9
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