Amnesia and dissociation

Question 1

Amnesia

Answer 1

Memory loss, mostly due to brain damage. Helps dissociate memory systems.

Question 2

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 2

Loss of memory before the lesions. Inability to retrieve

Question 3

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 3

Inability to form new memory due to encoding. Short term still workds

Question 4

Double dissociation

Answer 4

Damage to structure A impairs A but not B. Damage to B impairs B but not A

Question 5

Damage to left TPJ (K.F.)

Answer 5

Impaired verbal working memory, but normal declarative

Question 6

Damage to hippocampus (H.M.

Answer 6

Impaired declerative but normal verbal working/implicit memory

Question 7

Damage to right occipital lobe (M.S)

Answer 7

Impaired implicit memory but normal declerative.