PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Memory
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The case of h. m. particularly episodic memories. Hippocampus removed: involved in the consolidation of new memories, Anterograde amnesia: new events can"t be recalled/remembered, but old. You are having to relearn things over and over again (ex: names) memories can be recalled. The case of k. c. brain episodic memories memory following the surgery. Could remember old memories from before surgery and had good short term. Could not form declarative long term memories. Hippocampus: important to formation to long-term memories, particularly. Semantic memory dependent on structures underlying hippocampal region. Following motorcycle accident that damaged left frontal love and other parts of. Cannot remember anything that he has ever experienced. Semantic memory depends on hippocampus but also on other parts of. Once memories are stored they can be retrieved without involvement of hippocampal region hippocampus. Researcher that was particularly interested in why and how we forget. He conducted his experiments with some of his students no mistakes)
