lezione 26

Which of the following lesion sites is not associated with amnesia? (26). a) Fornix. b) Brodmann area 39. c) Hippocampus. d) Thalamus.

What is meant by “prospective memory”? (26). a) The ability to imagine what memories a person who lived in the past might have had. b) The ability to remember events as if one were remembering someone else. c) Memory of what an imagined future will be like. d) The ability to formulate plans and remember them over time.

Autobiographical memory (26). a) Shows the same dynamics between episodic and semantic memory as memory in general. b) Has episodic components. c) All statements are correct. d) Has semantic components.

Lesions of which areas are associated with long-term verbal memory deficits? (26). a) 21, 20. b) 22, 41. c) 28, 31. d) 40, 7.

What type of cortex is the hippocampus? (26). a) Homotypical isocortex. b) Agranular heterotypical isocortex. c) Allocortex. d) Granular heterotypical isocortex.

Which of the following types of memory is experienced with a feeling of “knowing”? (26). a) Autobiographical memory. b) Procedural memory. c) Episodic memory. d) Semantic memory.

Which of the following statements about memory processes is false? (26). a) Semantic memory always declines in parallel with episodic memory. b) A patient with global amnesia lives in an eternal present. c) New information cannot be acquired into semantic memory if long-term memory processes are impaired. d) Every semantic memory is formed during an episode that may later be forgotten.

What is the distinguishing feature of amnesia in Korsakoff’s disease? (26). a) None of the answers is correct. b) The frequent presence of pure forms of anterograde deficit. c) The frequent presence of pure forms of retrograde deficit. d) The frequent presence of confabulations and anosognosia.

Which of the following is not a frequent cause of global amnesia? (26). a) Aneurysm of the middle cerebral artery. b) Aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery. c) Anoxia. d) Thalamic infarction.

The 18F-FDG PET study by Fazio et al. suggests that the anatomo-functional deficit of amnesia (26). a) Is mainly localized in the hypothalamus. b) Involves a widespread circuit. c) Is mainly localized in the hippocampi. d) Is mainly localized in the thalamus.

Which of the following lesion sites is not associated with amnesia? (26). a) Fornix. b) All of these are possible lesion sites. c) Thalamus. d) Hippocampus.

What is meant by anterograde amnesia? (26). a) Inability to store new semantic information after the amnesia-triggering trauma. b) Inability to store new events after the amnesia-triggering trauma. c) Inability to consolidate events that occurred before the amnesia-triggering trauma. d) Inability to store any type of information after the amnesia-triggering trauma.

Figure 26.12 shows (26). a) The bilateral hippocampal damage in patient H.M. b) Preservation of implicit learning in hippocampal amnesic patients. c) Dissociation between free recall and priming in amnesic patients. d) All answers are correct.

Anosognosia for amnesia (26). a) Is associated only with amnesic patients with fornix damage. b) Is not a necessary component of global amnesia. c) Is always present in global amnesia. d) Is associated only with amnesic patients with cingulate gyrus damage.

Which of the following questions tests episodic memory? (26). a) Do you remember the seven kings of Rome?. b) Do you remember who was present at your last birthday party?. c) Do you remember whether bulldogs typically have long tails?. d) Do you remember which ice cream flavor you prefer?.