PSYC 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporal Lobe, Parahippocampal Gyrus, Episodic Memory
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H. m. , an unforgettable amnesiac, dies at 82: henry gustav molaison died of respiratory failure in nursing home. 2 systems in the brain for creating new memories: declarative memory (facts, events) records names, faces and new experiences, stores them until consciously retrieved, explicit memory. Function of medial temporal areas, hippocampus: motor learning subconscious depends on other brain systems (skills, how to do things) Pick up guitar and remember how to strum it: h. m. "s short-term memory fine hold thoughts for 20 seconds, without hippocampus, gist memories had the memories, but couldn"t place time, couldn"t narrate it. Future decision-making without episodic mental time travel kwan, donna: deficits in episodic memory inability to imagine future experiences (ie. mental time travel, k. c. Dissociation between imagining and making decisions involving the future: hippocampal damage + episodic memory impairment = impaired ability to imagine the future. Major distortion -> half of them said they were confident; though inaccurate.
