How Good is Your Memory?

2015-05-21

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The curious case of a man who lost his memory, but could still learn things.

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References:

Squire, L. R., & Zola-Morgan, S. (1991). The medial temporal lobe memory system. Science, 253(5026), 1380-1386. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.421.7385&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Squire, L. R. (2009). The legacy of patient HM for neuroscience. Neuron, 61(1), 6-9. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627308010957

Corkin, S. (2002). What's new with the amnesic patient HM?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(2), 153-160. http://cns-classes.bu.edu/cn550/Readings/corkin-02.pdf

Annese, J., Schenker-Ahmed, N. M., Bartsch, H., Maechler, P., Sheh, C., Thomas, N., ... & Corkin, S. (2014). Postmortem examination of patient HM’s brain based on histological sectioning and digital 3D reconstruction. Nature communications, 5. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140128/ncomms4122/full/ncomms4122.html

Image of H.M.’s 3D brain via the Brain Observatory www.thebrainobservatory.org