PSYC10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anterograde Amnesia, Implicit Memory, Procedural Memory
21 Jan 2017
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Each day after his first attempt, he thinks he"s never done the task before, but he improves dramatically everyday less errors per attempt. This shows that he has no conscious insight into this learning. So learning can occur independent of the hippocampus. (remember his hippocampus was removed). Procedural memory: long lasting, resistant to forgetting. Like riding a bike: often have no insight into how they learnt how to do the task, eg. Typing, driving, playing an instrument: requires highly complex movements and sequences of steps gradually become automatic and we don"t even need to think about it, practice makes perfect need to engage in task yourself, eg. Cooking, tying your shoes, using a phone: slowly building learning process, gradually acquired. Problem is when modification of those habits is required ->hard to break the habit. Memory and even to return back to original habit.
