Memory systems

Declarative memory: Dependent on medial temporal lobe, hippocampus
* semantic memory (facts)
- everything learned in your lifetime
* episodic memory (events)

-all different types of memory are dependent on different parts of the brain

"Hollywood" amnesia: dramaticized
* Profound forgetfulness

Regardless of modality of information (names, faces places, odors and music all forgotten)

Regardless of how information is presented (visual, auditory, olfactory)

*Amnesic syndrome: set of basis clinical features

impaired declarative but spared nondeclarative

Damage to the hippocampus:

*Anterograde Amnesia
- cannot form new memories
*retrograde amnesia
-*normal memory
- remain intact
* problem with consolidation of memories

	Created by Elizabeth De Leon over 7 years ago

Note on Learning and Memory, created by Elizabeth De Leon on 27/03/2017.

Learning and Memory