PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: George Sperling, Clive Wearing, Sensory Memory
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Imagine for a moment what your life would be like if all you knew was the present. He was a musician, a composer, a conductor, very well known in classical music circles in. He contracted herpes and got a brain infection. It was allowed to go too long, eventually they did something about it, but there was a lot of damage to his hippocampus and frontal lobe. So he knew what he was at the moment, never remembered anything that happened before. He can still play piano cuz that"s a different kind of memory that he hasn"t lost. The only person he remembers is his wife. Memory is not a single thing, there are multiple memories. Memory is more a verb than a noun, bc it"s about the processing that happens in your brain. The brain has an umber of different memory systems which sometimes do their own things and sometimes interact.
