PSYC 2510 Lecture Notes - Recognition Memory, Wrinkle, Parahippocampal Gyrus
2 May 2013
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Capacity to store, retain, & retrieve information. Stored pattern of connections between neurons in the brain. Hm (henry molaison: brenda milner, distinction between explicit and implicit memory. Case of hm links memory to hippocampus: loss of parts of hippocampus the result of surgery for epilepsy, brenda milner studied hm in hartford, loss of declarative memory, but not motor memory. Clive wearing absence of ability to form new memories (anterograde amnesia) or to recall old memories (retrograde amnesia) Near perfect recall of events related to her life (autobiographical memory) or events of interest to her. Video: jill price the woman who cannot forget. Her brain can live her life day by day, including watching tv shows. She lived two lives past and present. As a result, she cannot get over things and move on she relives the past and still feels bad about things that happened 30 years ago.
