Psychology 3138F/G Lecture 9: Amnesia and Autobiographical Memory – Lecture 8 & 9

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Amnesia and autobiographical memory lecture 8 & 9. Anterograde amnesia in everyday life: learning to recognize new faces and environments, remembering where things were left, remembering what happened during the day, remembering which tasks have not been complete and which have to be completed still. What defines anterograde amnesia: acquired impairment in declarative long-term memory following brain damage, normal or close-to-normal cognitive functioning gin other domains (including attention, reasoning, perception, language, semantic knowledge) !1: not alzheimer"s disease or other type of dementia where cognitive impairments are more widespread. Cohen: mtl may also be critical for stm whenever novel stimuli that are difficult to verbalize need to be maintained. Preserved repetition priming in amnesia when tested on indirect. Does anterograde amnesia associated with mtl damage affect episodic and semantic. What is the role of the hippocampus in episodic memory: for example, if you were thinking about how memory for where an object is located is stored in the hippocampus:

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