Forget Me Not
The inability to form new memories
What is anterograde amnesia?
Occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading information
What is the misinformation effect?
Loves his wife Deborah, can't remember his kids or doctors, hippocampus destroyed by virus
Who is Clive Wearing?
An inability to remember information from one's past
One reason these might happen is because visualizing something and actually perceiving something activate the same part of the brain
What are false memories?
Proposed that we repress painful or socially unacceptable memories
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Surgeons accidentally removed his hippocampus, resulting in amnesia
Who is H.M. or Henry Moliason?
What is deja vu?
Who is Eric Kandel?
We cannot remember what we have not encoded
What is encoding failure?
The process by which previously stored memories, when retrieved again, are potentially altered before being stored again
What is reconsolidation?
She is a well-known memory researcher who studies false memories
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
When new learning disrupts your recall of old information
What is retroactive (backward-acting) interference?
What is source amnesia or source misattribution?
He identified memory decay by using himself as a case study.
Who was Ebbinghaus?