Definitions
Amnesia is defined as?
People with a severe deficit in their episodic memory.
What is the most common cause of amnesia?
Most common cause stems from brain damage.
Patient H.M suffered from?
Anterograde Amnesia
Retrograde Amnesia
Loss of memory that occurred prior to brain damage
People with retrograde amnesia can experience deficits in?
Their somatic memory
What portion of the brain did they remove from Patient H.M.?
Temporal region and hippocampus
Anterograde amnesia
Loss of the ability to form memories for events that have occurred after brain damage.
The primary function of the hippocampus is?
Learning and memory
H.M. had normal?
Somatic memory
A structure underneath the cortex that is important in many learning and memory tasks.
Individuals with retrograde amnesia may lose?
Not only their memory from previous events and life experiences but also fact-based knowledge stored in long-term memory.
Events that occurred before his surgery, he could not learn oe retain new information.
Dissociation
a disconnection between a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or sense of who he or she is
The research by Warrington and Weiskrantz is a good example of a ?
Dissociation
Retrograde amnesia can affect
more than one system