Table 1.
Characteristics and Scores of the Amnesic Participants
| Participant | Demographic characteristics
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Neuropsychological scores
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| Etiology | Sex | Handedness | Education (years) | Age at testing (years) | WAIS-III FSIQ | WMS-III GMI | AVLT Trial 5/Delay | CFT Delay | Boston Naming Test | MAE Token Test | |
| 2563 | Anoxia | M | Left | 16 | 47 | 102 | 75 | 7/1 | 7 | 52 | 44 |
| 2363 | Anoxia | M | Right | 16 | 45 | 98 | 73 | 9/0 | 5 | 58 | 44 |
| 0001 | Anoxia | F | Right | 9 | 54 | 90 | 54 | 7/0 | 2 | 56 | 44 |
| 1951 | HSE | M | Right | 16 | 51 | 106 | 59 | 6/2 | 4 | 49 | 44 |
| 2308 | HSE | M | Left | 18 | 46 | 87 | 45 | 5/0 | 0 | 52 | 44 |
| 0002 | CHI | F | Right | 20 | 45 | 126 | 49 | 3/0 | 0 | 59 | 44 |
| Mean | 15.8 (3.7) | 48.0 (3.68) | 101.5 (13.4) | 59.2 (12.4) | 6.2 (2)/0.5 (0.1) | 3 (2.8) | 54.3 (3.9) | 44.0 (0) | |||
Note: Standard deviations are given in parentheses. Neuropsychological data include Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Third Edition (WAIS-III; Wechsler, 1997a), General Memory Index (GMI) score from the Wechsler Memory Scale—Third Edition (WMS-III; Wechsler, 1997b), the Trial 5 and Delay scores from the Rey Auditory and Verbal Learning Test (AVLT; Schmidt, 1996), Delay score from the Complex Figure Test (CFT; Meyers & Meyers, 1995), Boston Naming Test score (Goodglass & Kaplan, 2000), and Token Test score from the Multilingual Aphasia Examination (MAE; Benton, Hamsher, & Sivan, 1994). HSE = herpes simplex encephalitis; CHI = closed head injury; M = male; F = female.