PSYC 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Jigsaw Puzzle
16 Dec 2016
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Woman, when seeing a day, can remember everything that occurred on that day. Memory can also be frustrating when it fails us. Forgetting and the two-track mind: molaison: 55 years after having brain surgery to stop severe seizures, molaison unable to form new conscious memories. For about 20 seconds he could keep something in mind, then lose what was said or what happened when he was distracted again: anterograde amnesia: he suffered from it. Can recall past but not form new memories. (another person thought he was. 19 looked in mirror, panicked when realized not 19 but was so confused, needed to be distracted with another photo to calm self down) Cant form new explicit memories, but automatic processing was intact. Can learn how to do something, but no conscious recall of learning new skill. (confirms two different memory systems controlled by different parts of brain)
