Patients HM and KF

This also doubles up for women in psychology

When and where was HM firsts introduced?

1955 meeting of the American Neurological association

Who were the two main people that worked on patient HM

William Scoville and Brenda Milner

What area of HM’s brain was removed to ease the intensity of seizures?

Bilateral medial temporal lobe

In Milner’s first published work of 1959, what did she observe from HM’s memory ability?

HM could learn and repeat motor tasks but forgot that they even learned them the day after

What did Milner’s experimental findings suggest about patient HM?

Separation of the STM and LTM forms of memory

From Milner’s work, what area was suggested to be a neural correlate of LTM?

Bilateral Medial Temporal lobe

What caused Milner’s findings to come under scrutiny during the 60s?

Studies in monkeys with the same legioning showed no effect on long term memory

What did Mortimer Mishkin find in 1978?

Monkey’s learn the tasks tasks of long term memory differently to humans therefore using a different area of the brain

What did Mishkin’s 1978 findings allow him to create?

Monkey’s with basal ganglia resections that exhibited the same effects as HM

Who was the psychologist who published work on KF?

Elizabeth Warrington

What region of KF’s brain was damaged in the motor-cycle crash?

Parieto-occipital region

What did Warrington observe from KF’s memory task results?

Reduced digit span and impeded recency effect but perfectly fine LTM

What is a limitation of Warrington’s assumption that the Parieto-occipital region of KF’s brain is linked to STM?

KF’s legioning came from trauma and not an accurate surgical process, causing for inaccuracy in the area affected

How might’ve the inaccurate lesioning of KF caused for the discovery of a modular WM?

KF had poorer memory of auditory information in comparison to visual

The poorer auditory recall of KF lead to Alan Baddeley concluding what in his seminal 1980 paper?

The originally proposed STS model of memory was incorrect, a WM model must be investigated