PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Memory
30 Oct 2018
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Type of storage that holds info for hrs, days, weeks, or years. Had hippocampus and some surrounding medial temp lobes surgically removed. Can converse, perform well on intelligence tests. Not able to rmb anything that happened after the surgery. But after info left short term store it was gone. Would often forget that he had just eaten a meal or fail to recognize the hospital staff who helped in everyday. Hippocampus crucial for transferring new info into the long- term store. Inability to transfer new info form the short-term store into the long term store. Inability to retrieve info that was acq before a particular date, usually the. Inability to retrieve info that was acq before a particular date, usually the date of an injury/surgery. Hippocampus not be the site of long term memory. Long term memories spread around and stored in diff places in cortex. Index- links tgt all the critical bits of info into one coherent memory.
