EPHE 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Problem Solving

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Case study of e. p. (who suffered from a viral infection that affected his brain activity) Has emotional connection, but cannot remember the girls name. Problem solving skills and critical thinking abilities still in tact. Inability to remember things that have happened a few moments ago. Injury in hippocampus and tissue around it **cannot form new memories** Old memories are still intact (remember where he grew up, specific streets, can think critically about which routes he could take from his house to various places in his hometown etc. ) Case study of chuck (damage to hippocampus from heart attack) Ca(cid:374)(cid:374)ot re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er weddi(cid:374)g day, whe(cid:374) his so(cid:374)s" were (cid:271)or(cid:374), fa(cid:373)ily (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers (cid:374)a(cid:373)es et(cid:272). When asked to recall images shown to him at the beginning of the session he cannot. Damage to hippo but is not gone completely (fragments of experiences are intact but are not linked properly linked to the wrong time, place, person)

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