Talk:Source amnesia

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I as copyright holder give permission to post such masterial and have expanded the scope. --Slakhan 19:01, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Anterograde amnesia
I'd like to mention that many anterograde amnesia sufferers posess similar symptoms, in regard to skills learned and thought 'forgotten' after the onset. But I don't have sufficient information on the phenomenon.

Not just disorder.
This article treats source amnesia as a disorder, but I have also seen the term used to simply indicate the phenomenon that people don't remember exactly where they heard or read something. Ironically, I don't remember exactly where I read the term used in this way. Possibly in The Skeptical Inquirer circa 2000. 195.35.160.133 (talk) 12:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC) Martin.


 * Additional info: in the article List of memory biases this is called Source confusion. 93.95.251.162 (talk) 13:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC) Martin (my ip# has changed).

I had the same issue with the article. The only cited source in the wikipedia article regarding Source Amnesia does not refer to it as a disorder, but a common phenomenon. I quote: "False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. But this effort may be more difficult than it seems, thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories - and mislead us along the way.

''The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer's hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man's curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned. For example, you know that the capital of California is Sacramento, but you probably don't remember how you learned it.''

''This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true."'' Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29iht-edwang.1.14069662.html

None of this includes the word "disorder" anywhere, it uses phrases like "False beliefs are everywhere," and it implies that the neurotypical brain is susceptible to source amnesia. Sadie (talk) 21:40, 9 October 2011 (UTC)