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This is the most important issue of HS’ research activity. There is particular interest devoted to remote memory assessments and disorders. Some further memory papers are listed under the Alzheimer heading.
Most important papers are marked with an asterisk.

Areas:

Autobiographical Memory

Remote Memory and Confabulations

Pure Retrograde Amnesia

Working Memory and Attention

Location and Pattern Learning, Prose Memory, Short-Term Amnesia

Global Amnesia
 

Autobiographical Memory

Remote Memory and Confabulations

Borrini, G, Dall’Ora P, Della Sala S, Marinelli L, Spinnler H (1989) Autobiographical memory: sensitivity to age and education of a standardized enquiry. Psychological Medicine 19: 215-224 *

Dall’Ora P, Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1989) Autobiographical memory: its impairment in amnersic syndromes. Cortex 25: 197-217
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Della Sala S, Laiacona M, Spinnler H, Trivelli C (1992) Is autobiographical impairment due to a deficit of recollection? An overwiev on Alzheimer dements, frontal and global amnesic patients. In: Conway MA, Rubin DC, Spinnler H, Wagenaar A. (Eds.) Theoretical perspectives on Autobiographical Memory. Dordrecht: Kluewer Academic Press


Della Sala S, Laiacona M, Spinnler H, Trivelli C (1993) Autobiographical recollection and frontal damage. Neuropsychologia 31: 823-839
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Lucchelli F, Spinnler H (1998) Ephemeral new traces and evaporated remote engrams: a new form of neocortical temporal amnesia? A preliminary report. Neurocase 4: 447-459 *

Bizzozero I, Lucchelli F, Prigione A Saetti C, Spinnler H (2004) “What do you remember about Chernobyl?” A new test of memory for media-mediated events. Neurological Sciences 25: 205-215
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Bizzozero I, Capitani E, Lucchelli F, Saetti C, Spinnler H (2005) Temporal gradients for media-mediated memory: Italian norms. Neurological Sciences 26: 95-107


Bizzozero I, Capitani E , Faglioni F, Lucchelli F, Saetti C., Spinnler H (2008) Recollection of public events in healthy people: a latent variable stochastic approach to disentangling retrieval and storage. Cortex, 44: 150-160
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Faglioni, P. Spinnler, H. – The architecture of semantic memory: a possible latent structure model. In preparation


 

Pure Retrograde Amnesia

Location and Pattern Learning, Prose Memory, Short-Term Amnesia

Lucchelli F, Muggia S, Spinnler H (1995) The “petites madeleines” phenomenon in two amnesic patients: sudden recovery of forgotten memories. Brain 118: 167-183 *

De Renzi E, Lucchelli F, Muggia S, Spinnler H (1995) Persistent retrograde amnesia following a minor trauma. Cortex 31: 531-542
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Della Sala S, Freschi R, Lucchelli F, Muggia S, Spinnler H (1996) Retrograde amnesia: no past, new life. In: Halligan PW, Marshall JC (Eds.) Method in madness: case studies in cognitive neuropsychiatry (pp 209-234). Hove: Psychology Press

De Renzi R, Lucchelli F, Muggia S, Spinnler H (1997) Is memory loss without anatomical damage tantamount to a psychogenic deficit? The case of pure retrograde amnesia. Neuropsychologia 11: 781-794
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Lucchelli F, Spinnler H (1998) The syndrome of pure retrograde amnesia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 3: 91-118

Lucchelli F, Spinnler H (2002) The “psychogenic” versus “organic” conundrum of pure retrograde amnesia: is it still worth pursuing? Cortex 38: 665-669
De Renzi E, Spinnler H (1966) The influence of verbal and non verbal defects on visual memory tasks. Cortex 2: 322-336 *

Boller F, Spinnler H (1968) Unilateral brain damage and visual memory of colors. Neurology 18: 306-307

Scotti G, Spinnler H (1969) La compromissione della memoria topografica per lesione dell’emisfero minore: dissociazione tra memoria anterograda e memoria retrograda. Sistema Nervoso e Riabilitazione 21: 187-194

Capitani E, Di Costanzo M, Spinnler H (1978) Do focal neocortical lesions hamper short-term recognition of visual spatial patterns? Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 123:207-221

Capitani E, Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Vallar G (1980) The hemispheric side of neocortical damage does not affect memory for unidimensional position: An experiment with Posner and Konick’s test. Cortex 16: 295-304

Capitani E, Grossi D, Lucca U, Orsini A, Spinnler H (1980) Spatial and colour cues in a route learning task. Acta Neurologica (Napoli) 35: 305-314

Parravicini C, Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Vallar G (1981) Counting back from a visually presented digit increases recall asymmetries between hemispheres: A Brown-Peterson experiment with lateral projection of trigrams. Cortex 17: 721-734
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Basso A, Spinnler H,Vallar G, Zanobio EM (1982) Left hemisphere damage and selective impairment of auditory verbal short-term memory : A case study. Neuropsychologia 20: 263-274
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Barigazzi R, Della Sala S, Laiacona M, Spinnler H, Valenti V (1987) Esplorazione testistica della memoria di prosa. Ricerche di Psicologia 1: 50-80

Capitani E, Della Sala S, Logie R, Spinnler H (1992  Recency, primacy and memory: reappraising and standardising the serial position curve. Cortex 28: 15-42

 

Working Memory and Attention

 

Global Amnesia

Baddeley A, Bressi S, Della Sala S, Logie R, Spinnler H (1986) Dementia and working memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 38A: 603-618 *

Baddeley A, Bressi S, Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1991) The decline of working memory in Alzheimer’s disease. A longitudinal study. Brain 114: 2521-2542
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Baddely A, Cocchini G, Della Sala S, Logie R, Spinnler H (1999) Working memory and vigilance. Evidence from normal ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Brain and Cognition 41: 87-108
 
Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Vallar G (1977) Le amnesie. Milano: Franco Angeli

Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Vallar G (1980) Amnesic syndromes after carbon monoxide poisoning: A case report. Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 127: 79-88

Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1986) “Indifferance amnesique” in a case of global amnesia following acute brain hypoxia. European Neurology 25: 98-109

Della Sala S, Lucchelli F, Lunghi A, Spinnler H (1995) Fifteen-year-long isolated amnesia: an unusual onset of slowly progressive Alzheimer’s disease? In: Campbell R, Conway MA Broken (Eds.) Memories (pp 411-425). Oxford: Blackwell
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Della Sala S, Spinnler H, Venneri A (1997) Persistent global amnesia following a right thalamic stroke. An 11-year longitudinal study. Neuropsychology 11: 90-103
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Updated to July 2011