PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Temporal Lobe, Henry Molaison, Dennis Amiss
20 Aug 2013
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Habits or fears you have: conditioned response. Events you experience: mentally time travel. Deep in the temporal lobes (in the middle) the glue that binds memories the index to stored memories. ** the activity of our cells reacted faster than our actual speech if we were to recall a memory. 1953 age 27, bilateral medial temporal lobe resection. 1955 report of pervasive and profound amnesia. Every day is alone in itself, whatever joy i"ve had and whatever sorrow i"ve had h. m. It"s like waking from a dream; i just don"t remember. h. m. Limits of neuropsychology (patient studies: stage of memory deficit is ambiguous, memory formation, storing memory, accessing memory, lesions do not obey functional boundaries, possibility for reorganization. Each image contains 10"s of thousands of pixels. Mental process brain cell fires increased blood flow more oxygen to brain . Link to memory formation or retrieval increased fmri signal.
