2.5 Amnesia

Question 1

retrograde amnesia

Answer 1

loss of memories prior to accident
- informal teseting + formal
- affected: episodic, personal semantic
- non-declarative largely intact
- ribots law

Question 2

anterograde amnesia

Answer 2

cannot create new memories after accident
- more detrimental
- declarative memory most effected (episodic, autobiographical, semantic)
- no distinctiveness or novelty effects, no von restorff effect
- spared STM, procedural, implicit

Question 3

Ribots law

Answer 3

newer memories more likely to be lost
- older memories more likely to be recovered
- thought bc of disrupted memory consolidation (MTL damage)

Question 4

alzheimers

Answer 4

mostly in hippocampus and association areas
- STM and WM deficits
- temporally graded loss of episodic memory (recent lost first)
- autobiographical loss (less extreme then for public semantic)
- semantic memory more resistant early on, then shows deficits
- impaired conceptual priming
- impairments in recollection and familiarity (larger for recollection)