Essays on Amnesia

During the learning process, information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Initially, the sensory organs receive information from the environment and briefly store it in the sensory cells. By paying attention to this information, it gets transferred to the working memory/short-term memory. If rehearsed, information can stay in short-term memory indefinitely but often gets displaced by…

‘HM, an Unforgettable Amnesic’ (New York Times, 2008). Critically evaluate the contribution made by HM and other key patient studies to our understanding of human Long-Term Memory. In particular, refer to patient studies of the organisation of conceptual knowledge (e. g. semantic memory) and episodic memories. ‘Long-term memory is a system for permanently storing, managing,…

50 First Dates In the movie 50 First Dates, one of the main characters suffers from the severe condition of anterograde amnesia. The movie is about Henry Roth who is a wildlife veterinarian in Hawaii, meeting Lucy Whitmore a woman who has a short-term memory loss from an auto accident a year earlier. Henry meets…

Introduction             The Lost Mariner is one of the essays in the book The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat written by Oliver Sacks, a neurologists. The entire book is a collection of essays narrating different cases about people with problems on the brain, particularly the right-hemisphere—either losing memory or having memories that did…