Memory and Language-Lecture 8

Question 1

Patient HM

Answer 1

Had dense amnesia for episodic and semantic information when parts of his medial temporal lobe was surgically removed (incl. hippocampus and entorhinal cortex)
unable to form new Long-term Memories or learn new information
Conditioning was preserved

Question 2

Patient NA

Answer 2

Lesion to mammilary bodies and thalamus

Had dense Amnesia-especially for verbal material

Question 3

Korsakoff’s Syndrome

Answer 3

Due to Thiamine Depletion and Diencephalic lesions as a result of severe alcoholism
Have an intact STM and priming
Retrograde memory loss and new learning impairment

Question 4

Semantic Dementia

Answer 4

Degeneration affecting the ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE
impairs semantic memory
intact autobiographical memory

Question 5

Patient KF

Answer 5

Short term memory impairment

Question 6

Patient EA

Answer 6

Poor Phonological memory

poor learning the sounds of foreign words

Question 7

Patient AK

Answer 7

Poor Semantic STM

poor learning of the definitions of foreign words

Question 8

Patient PV

Answer 8

Poor phonlogical STM

Could not associate words in native tongue with words in foreign toungue

Question 9

Patient KC

Answer 9

Motorcycle accident
Impaired episodic Memory
Could not produce a single episode from his past that was distinct in time or place
Could remember how to do a task, but could not remember if he ever had done it before in his life