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Disorders of Temporal Judgment Associated with Amnesic States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Moyra Williams  and
O. L. Zangwill
Moyra Williams
Affiliation:
The Psychological Department, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester
O. L. Zangwill
Affiliation:
Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
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It is widely recognized that judgment of time may be grossly disturbed in amnesic states of organic origin. Korsakoff (1890), in his classic exposition of the syndrome which has come to bear his name, pointed out that memory for time is often more severely affected than memory for events, and that temporal reference may remain markedly defective, even after remission of the psychosis. Thus one of his patients was able to recall recent events with fair accuracy, but was unable to state whether a given event had occurred yesterday or three years before. After recovery, moreover, this patient presented disturbances in the temporal sphere as the most outspoken residual symptom. Korsakoff further observed that defects of temporal localization might appear as the most prominent manifestation in mild cases of the amnesic syndrome. It would seem, then, that disorders of time judgment form an integral part of this syndrome and may well reflect a disturbance of memory at its highest levels of psychological organization.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 96 , Issue 403 , April 1950 , pp. 484 - 493
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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