Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 4: Memory III_ When Memory Fails

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner- Wilger

Document Summary

Disrupts memory for events prior to onset. Limited to a few years prior (before) to trauma. Hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala were removed to control epilepsy. Moderate retrograde amnesia (temporally graded aka certain periods of time) Different memory systems & types of memory that rely on different brain regions. Could learn new skills but didn"t remember learning them. Give a false or irrelevant answer to question. Made up or traceable to older memory. Working memory was intact for a few tasks. Cause: thiamine deficiency, usually resulting from alcoholism, severe malnutrition. Can remember names when given some clues. Damage to parietal lobe &/or the temporal lobes. When you think you remember something but you don"t. Memory doesn"t work the way we think it does. How has the illusion of memory affected your own thoughts and actions. Trying to think back to situations you think you remember (childhood?) Gray area, failure to notice the failures.