PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anterograde Amnesia, Temporal Lobe, Neurodegeneration
13 Oct 2016
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Use encoding context as retrieval cue while taking an exam. Use deep encoding (process meaning, make associations) while studying. Long-term memory systems famous neuropsychological experiment: case study of h. m: debilitating seizures, surgeon removed parts of brain that they thought were causing the seizures temporal lobe & hippocampus, seizures stopped, but he had severe memory loss. Anterograde amnesia inability to form memories after brain damage; can"t form new memories. Retrograde amnesia loss of memoires formed before brain damage; childhood memories, old information. Lonnie sue case study retrograde amnesic patient. Patient h. m had anterograde amnesia: unable to recall conversations from 30 minutes ago, but he could remember and learn new motor skills (how to ride a bike) Explicit memory (declarative) requires conscious effort and can be verbally described: episodic memory personally experienced events (lost in both lonnie sue and h. m. ); autobiographical: (cid:498)i remember(cid:499). Damage to the hippocampus: semantic memory facts and knowledge (lonnie sue can recall this info); (cid:498)i know(cid:499).
