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What is amnesia?
A selective disruption of the processes underlying long-term memory. Short-term and sensory memory and typically functional. Other cognitive functions are not impaired.
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What brain regions are involved in human amnesia?
Temporal lobe amnesia, diencephalic amnesia
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Temporal lobe amnesia
Mostly effects explicit memory. Damage to hippocampus, amygdala, and medial temporal lobes.
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Diencephalic amnesia
Mostly effects explicit memory. Damage to the medial thalamus and mamillary nuclei.
Anterograde amnesia
Inability to learn new info after the onset of amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Loss of info that was learned before the onset of amnesia.
Can anterograde and retrograde amnesia occur at the same time?
Yes, it is actually common for them to do so.
Temporal lobe amnesia patients and the recency and primacy effects?
TLA patients exhibit recency effect but nor primacy effect.
Recency effect?
Remember things that were presented to you recently easier.
Primacy effect?
Remember things that were presented to you before later this easier.
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