PSY100H1 Lecture : PSY100 - Effects of Early Episodic Memory
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hippocampus: damage to it known to result in declarative memory impairment, with episodic memory being preferentially lost. Theory of mind: ability to formulate hypothesis about contents of other people s minds (ex false belief test) rationale: neuroimaging studies show high degree of overlap in brain activation for episodic memory and tom, from developmental lit: episodic memory and tom capabilities emerge at approximately same time during development. Investigate tom capabilities of patiend who acquired hippocampal damage, and consequent episodic memory impairment at very young age before tom had chance to develop (rare) If intact episodic memory necessary for development of tom, then patiend who nevr developmed normal episodic as consequence of early hippocampal damage will perform poorly on standard tests of tom. 9 age and education-matched control participants, compared hc performance to perf of controls using modified t-test developed by.
