BRAIN
CEREBELLUM
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Question
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What did studies of patients with damage to their hippocampus help researchers discover?
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how declarative memories are stored
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how classical conditioning may work
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two types of long-term memory:procedural and declarative memory
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two types of long-term memory:explicit memory and implicit memory
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -If the hippocampus is damaged by disease or injury, it can influence a person’s memories as well as their ability to form new memories. Hippocampus damage can particularly affect spatial memory, or the ability to remember directions, locations, and orientations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The hippocampus is essential for the formation of declarative (conscious) memory (1, 2), including both episodic memory (memory for events) and semantic memory (factual knowledge).
Detailed explanation-3: -HM’s case study is one of the most famous and important case studies in psychology, especially in cognitive psychology. It was the source of groundbreaking new knowledge on the role of the hippocampus in memory.
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