Kinesiology 3480A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Implicit Memory, Temporal Lobe, Anterograde Amnesia
19 Oct 2016
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Long-term memory (ltm): items practices or rehearsed access ltm, has limitless capacity, individuals have three distinct long-term memory systems. Memory for how to perform a motor related task, stores knowledge of how to do a skill or activity. Once you learn how to perform a task (know how to do the task), it is hard to verbalize how to do the movement, do not have to think about it. Contained sub-cortically in the cerebellum, does not contain high level processing. Highly conscious memory, must be aware to excess information. Most robust and strongest of all memory systems, all multi-sensory in nature. Henry m and brenda millner- episodic memory impairment: background of henry m. Severe brain damage that led to retractable epilepsy so surgeons attempted to relieve epileptic symptoms by performing a lesioning study. Hm had large sections of temporal lobe and hippocampus almost completely removed.
