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question open 2026-07-11

Verify against Neisser's 1981 primary text: the John Dean findings and the 'repisodic' coinage

The claim in claim-neisser-john-dean-testimony-repisodic-memory has a Tier 1 citation confirmed via PubMed, but the analytic content — that Dean's specific recollections were wrong while the gist held, that Dean inflated his own centrality, and the coinage of "repisodic" memory — is secondary paraphrase. The full text was paywalled at capture time and never directly read.

What to read. Ulric Neisser, "John Dean's Memory: A Case Study," Cognition 9(1):1-22 (1981). PubMed record: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7196816/ . Also reprinted in Neisser (ed.), Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts (1982), which may be the more accessible route to full text.

What to confirm.

On success. Promote the note past seedling, add the verbatim quotation, and update audit_status. This lifts the second flag on observation-1981-convergence-testimony-wrong-in-detail-right-in-shape.

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