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THE BRAIN – PARTS OF
The Brain and Memory
The brain registers and temporarily stores the elements of a remembered episode – its smell, feel, sound and location but then memories migrate for storage else where.
Hippocampus
Neural Center in the Limbic System Processes new explicit memories of names, images and events. Explicit memories are processed in hippocampus but stored
elsewhere. Antegrade Amnesia:
caused by removal of hippocampus. Forget present events but remember everything before the
hippocampus was removed. Implicit memory can be done but not explicit.
Damages in the left = trouble remembering verbal information.Damages in the right = trouble remembering visual information.The longer the hippocampus and its pathways to the cortex are left
intact after training the smaller the memory defecit.
Cerebellum
Where implicit memory is formed and stored. If damages, not able to develop certain condition
reflexes. Explicit-Implicit memory system explain infantile
amnesia, the skills and reactions we learned while infants which we don’t recall later on as adults.