developmental amnesia

impaired ability to form memories of past events (i.e., impaired episodic memory) due to a brain injury sustained early in life. Specifically, the injury is to the hippocampus but not to surrounding medial temporal lobe structures. In this condition, memory for factual information (i.e., semantic memory) appears to remain largely intact.

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January 18th 2025

consistent missing

in parapsychology experiments using Zener cards or similar targets, the phenomenon in which a participant’s “calls,” or guesses, are consistently wrong or significantly below chance expectations. Some people attribute such systematic failure to processing error or a conscious or nonconscious reluctance to confirm psychic ability. See also psi-missing.