case studies Flashcards
what are the case studies you can use for cognitive?
clive wearing
HM
KC
Phineas Gage
who is clove wearing?
70 year old musician
how did clive wearing lose his memory?
contracted a virus in 1985 that destroyed his hippocampus along with the surrounding area
what could clive wearing not remember?
could not remember past events or create new memories
however could remember his wife and how to play to the piano
had his procedural
how did HM lose his memory?
has his hippocampus removed in 1953 to treat his severe epilepsy
cure him but left his with anterograde amnesia
what was hm able to do and not to?
was able to draw stars (keeping his procedural memory)
but lost his ability to form new episodic memory
what is the phineas gage case study?
suffered damage to his frontal lobes through a railway accident
personality drastically changed
frontal lobes involved with decision making
what could kc recall?
facts - semantic
what couldn’t kc recall?
personal events
autobographical
what does kc show?
that long term memory has different stores
what does hm show about memory?
unable to remember facts but kept procedural
how did kc get brain damage?
motor cycle accident in 1981
what could kc remember?
information learnt from books
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