Kent Cochrane | |
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| Born | August 5, 1951 |
| Died | March 27, 2014 (aged 62) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Kent Cochrane (August 5, 1951 – March 27, 2014[1]), also known as Patient K.C., was a widely studied Canadian memory disorder patient who has been used as a case study in over 20 neuropsychology papers over the span of 25 years. In 1981, Cochrane was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him with severe anterograde amnesia, as well as temporally graded retrograde amnesia. Like other amnesic patients (patient HM, for example), Cochrane had his semantic memory intact, but lacked episodic memory with respect to his entire past.[2] As a case study, Cochrane has been linked to the breakdown of the single-memory single-locus hypothesis regarding amnesia, which states that an individual memory is localized to a single location in the brain.[3]
- ^ Branswell, Helen (April 1, 2014). "Toronto amnesiac whose case helped rewrite chapters of the book on memory dies". The Toronto Star. Toronto.
- ^ Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Boller, François; Grafman, Jordan (2000). Handbook of neuropsychology. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-444-50361-9.
- ^ Rosenbaum RS, Köhler S, Schacter DL, et al. (2005). "The case of K.C.: contributions of a memory-impaired person to memory theory". Neuropsychologia. 43 (7): 989–1021. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.10.007. PMID 15769487. S2CID 1652523.