PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anterograde Amnesia, Episodic Memory, Clive Wearing

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Def a disruption of memory, often due to brain damage. Retrograde amnesia disrupts memory for things learned prior to the event that initiated the amnesia. Anterograde amnesia causing disruption of memory for experiences after the onset of amnesia. Clive wearing episodic memory is massively disrupted, memory for generic information intact. Other patients have disrupted semantic memory but preserved episodic knowledge. No knowledge of common words, events, famous people. But can remember her wedding and honeymoon. Double dissociation that demands a distinction between episodic and semantic memory. H. m able to recall events that took place before the surgery. Could hold a normal conversation until interrupted. Korsakoff"s syndrome anterograde amnesia caused by damage to specific brain regions, often formed by malnutrition in long-term alcoholics. Patients can remember event that took place before onset of alcoholism. Patient with korsakoff"s amnesia shook his hand that had a pin pinprick. Next day, couldn"t remember him meeting yesterday but refused to shake hands.