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Ribot’s law

1. the principle that the most recently acquired memories are the most vulnerable to disruption from brain damage. As a result, a temporal gradient is observed in retrograde amnesia.

2. a generalization stating that when a multilingual person recovers from aphasia caused by a stroke or cerebral injury, the language recovered first will be the person’s native language. Compare Pitres’ rule. [Théodule Ribot]

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October 9th 2024