Amnesia Flashcards
1
Q
What is amnesia?
A
A condition caused by brain damage leading to impairment of LTM
2
Q
What is retrograde amnesia?
A
Ability to remember information from before injury impaired
3
Q
What is anterograde amnesia?
A
Ability to form new memories after the injury impaired
4
Q
What happened to patient HM?
A
8cm cut from medial temporal lobe bilaterally and he got anterograde amnesia
5
Q
What could patient HM remember?
A
- Some memories from childhood
- Normal vocab and general knowledge
- Working memory was normal
- Procedural memory intact
6
Q
What did McCormick et al (2018) argue about amnesic patients?
A
They can also show problems with
- future thinking
- scene construction
- navigation
- moral decision making
