Fig. 2.
Individual scores for GD, LM, and WH on recall tests involving public events and famous faces. For comparison, the mean scores for control subjects (n = 8) are shown inopen squares in each panel. In the public events test, SEs for the control subjects ranged from 3.9 to 7.1%. For the famous faces test, SEs for the control subjects ranged from 4.4 to 5.5%. The patients were tested in 1987; GD became amnesic in 1983, LM in 1984, and WH in 1986. Note that GD was born in 1940, so the personalities in the famous faces test for the 1940s came into prominence when he was younger than 10 years old. LM and WH had temporally graded retrograde amnesia (see Results). Also, see Results for discussion of the difficulty of interpreting GD’s scores for these tests.