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Prose recall and amnesia: more implications for the episodic buffer.

Gooding PA, Isaac CL, Mayes AR

Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. patricia.a.gooding@man.ac.uk

Baddeley and Wilson [Baddeley, A. D., & Wilson, F. B. (2002). Prose recall and amnesia: implications for the structure of working memory. Neuropsychologia 40, 1737-1743.] have argued that their finding of a positive association between amnesics' immediate prose recall scores and their scores on measures of executive function and fluid intelligence supports the view that an episodic buffer exists. However, the pattern of data from amnesics tested in our laboratory presented some problems for this conceptualisation of the episodic buffer.

Published 17 February 2005 in Neuropsychologia, 43(4): 583-7.
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