PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Herpesviral Encephalitis, Antonio Damasio, Implicit Learning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Julia Wreford

Document Summary

Never asked for food, or to go to bed. H. m memory disorder was selective in 5 important ways: 1. Higher-order perceptual, motor, and cognitive functions not affected. Loss the capacity for new learning (anterograde amnesia) He scored 0 on tests that assesses the persistence of his memory for stories, lists of words and numbers, pictures, or any of a large range of other material: 3. The span of short-term memory was normal, but riddled with delays: 4. Spared other domains of learning and memory capacity. Habitual learning: association of specific patterns of visual stimuli with specific motor sequences. Structure of memory: declarative facts and events that require conscious recollection and, procedural skills and preferences that can be acquired and that can be expressed explicitly (hippocampus + cortex around it) expressed unconsciously. Unknown experiences: procedural memory system (s-r) Striatum regulation of voluntary movements; planning, initiation, and: affected in parkinson"s disease learning motor behaviour.