CAS PS 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Henry Molaison, Granola, Episodic Memory
7 Aug 2018
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Exam info: let the lectures guide you for the reading; test will have multiple choice and paragraph questions. Note kind of a continuation and better explanation for material in lecture #6: Knew a lot about important societal people like presidents and martin luther king jr. after his surgery. Usually material that has repeatedly been presented: perhaps new semantic learning is possible due to intact posterior. Postle and corkin the granola-jacuzzi experiment : priming task with new words: granola, frisbee, and microwave, no evidence of priming in hm for words that have no prior representation in the brain. Preservation of semantic memory with selective damage to hippocampus. Ppl who suffered mtl at time of birth or as an infant were studied for an extended time. With mri they examined hippo and mtl structure and tracked how they did in terms of episodic and semantic learning.
