Abstract
Abstract The acquisition of selected motor skills was studied in a 40-year-old man with a severe amnestic syndrome resulting from a bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection carried out 13 years before. On Rotary Pursuit, Bimanual Tracking, and Tapping, his scores improved from session to session, and on the one task where it was feasible to retest several days after the end of training (Rotary Pursuit), he showed complete retention. These results imply that motor learning can be mediated by brain structures still intact in this patient. The additional finding that he was inferior to normal men of his age on two tasks, in both initial and final levels of performance, is attributed to his relatively long reaction time rather than to the memory deficit.
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