Chapter 9 Memory - Cog. Neuro.

This patient had severe anterograde amnesia and couldn’t form new declarative memories

H.M

What is consolidation when it comes to memory?

Process by which memory representations are stored over time. Belived to include changes in the neuronal processes and brain systems taking part in the storage of info.

Can take minutes, hours, days, months, or even years.

H.M had p rogressively worse epilepsy since childhood, uncontrollable by medication. His surgery included removal of his…

amygdala, temporal lobes, entorhinal cortex, hippocampus

Without the ____, H.M was unable to form new memories and the recall of some stored memories was severaly hampered.

medial temporal lobe