KC (patient)
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KC (Also known as Patient K.C.) is a famous patient in neuropsychology who suffers from anterograde amnesia and temporally graded retrograde amnesia as the result of a motorcycle crash. He has intact semantic memory but no episodic memory.
He was the patient of famous memory researcher Endel Tulving.
[edit] References
- The case of K.C.: contributions of a memory-impaired person to memory theory R. Shayna Rosenbauma, Stefan Köhlerc, Daniel L. Schacterd, Morris Moscovitcha, Robyn Westmacotte, Sandra E. Black Fuqian Gaof and Endel Tulvinga (Complete paper, Google hosted)
- - The Gairdner Foundation: The Best in Medical Science Researchers