Abstract
A patient with amnesia due to encephalitis was examined in an effort to identify the factors that might contribute to his memory disturbances. It was discovered that this patient had the ability to analyze incoming verbal information on a level comparable to that achieved by normals. Furthermore, this ability enabled him to retain a limited amount of information for a brief interval, but, as soon as further information was introduced, it appeared to displace completely the older information in his working memory. As a consequence, information never seemed to be consolidated into permanent, long-term, memory. Several attempts to increase the amount of information that could be consolidated (e.g. through use of visual imagery, verbal mediation, etc.) were attempted with promising, yet limited, results.
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