Forgetting due to Brain Damage (forgetting)

Question 1

causes of brain damage (3)

Answer 1

• physical injury
• neurological disease
• use of certain drugs

Question 2

what is the Hippocampus essential for in LTM?

Answer 2

encoding, storage and retrieval

Question 3

Maguire et al (London Taxis)

Answer 3

• the hippocampi of taxi drivers were significantly larger relative to those of the control subjects
• hippocampal volume correlated with the amount of time spent as a taxi driver

Question 4

describe the case study of patient HM

Answer 4

• suffered from severe epilepsy
• his hippocampus was removed through surgery; a novel procedure at the time
• his case helped establish the role of the hippocampus in memory

Question 5

results of the procedure on patient HM

Answer 5

his seizures improved but he was left with amnesia; he could not make new memories or recall the past 11 years of his life