PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Traumatic Brain Injury
2 Feb 2017
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Group studies involves selecting patients whose damage is broadly associated with a specific disease or cause (ex. the traumatic brain injury (tbi) that might result from a blow to the head) Areas of his brain associated with the left and right hippocampus were surgically removed, as a result hm became densely amnesic. His capacity to acquire new information was severely limited (like clive wearing) Deficits were primarily limited to episodic long term memory (unlike clive wearing: digit span was normal. Unable to remember experiences for more than a few minutes: performed badly on standard visual and verbal memory test, failed to learn the names or faces of new people. His case supported a separation of functions between memory and intelligence and between. Stm and ltm: demonstrates that episodic ltm is separable from other cognitive capacities this is known as a dissociation. Double dissociation: when two patient groups show opposite patterns of deficit (ex. normal.
