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.