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.
- That Neisser actually coins/uses "repisodic" in this paper (vs. a later attribution), and its precise definition.
- The direction of Dean's errors (self-aggrandising / centrality inflation) as Neisser characterises it, in his own words.
- The gist-vs-detail structure of the finding, with a verbatim quotable phrase for
the Tier 1
source_quote.
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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