Essays on Amnesia

During the learning process information is encoded, then stored and retrieved once needed. The sensory organs receive information from the environment and are stored for a very short period within the sensory cells, by giving attention to this information it is sent into the working memory/short term memory. Information in short-term memory can be held…

‘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,…

Encoding Failure – The process of memory retrieval is like searching a book from the library. Forgetting due to encoding failure means that the book you are searching for is not available in the library. In short, you did not successfully transfer and store the information in long-term memory. For example, your professor is discussing…

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…