Long-term Memory
Long-term Memory
Long-term Memory
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• Bilateral damage to the medial temporal lobes<br />
– Hippocampus<br />
• memory for events and episodes<br />
– Amygdala<br />
• memory for emotions<br />
– patient H.M. (1953)<br />
– sources of damage<br />
• Surgery, stroke, hypoxia, head injury<br />
• Korsakoff’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease<br />
• electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), benzodiazepines<br />
– anterograde and retrograde amnesia<br />
brain<br />
damage<br />
PAST PRESENT<br />
retrograde<br />
anterograde