PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Basal Ganglia, Episodic Memory, Procedural Memory
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Studies of patients with very localized brain damage provide considerable support for the notion of different types of long-term memory. Patients may lose one type of memory completely, but not the others. After a surgery removing both hippocampi, patient henry molaison or hm completely lost his ability to form new episodic memory. Patients with parkinson"s disease such as michael j. Fox often lose the ability to form new procedural memories. Parkinson"s leads to degeneration of the basal ganglia. Causing problems with motor control as well as procedural memory. The spreading activation and schema models of memory both emphasize that. Improve memory memories are formed by linking new information to existing information. Memories are enhanced every time we use them, so the more often a memory is retrieved, the stronger it will become. Unlike simply re-reading notes over and over again. Increase the number of connections between the new information and existing.
