The case of Henry Molaison (patient H.M.) taught us much about memory. Molaison experienced anterograde amnesia for declarative memories. Describe the structures involved in declarative memory and how this case provided that understanding.
What will be an ideal response?
We now understand that the hippocampus is key to declarative memories, as loss of hippocampus function seen in these patients produces anterograde amnesia. What we know now is that declarative memory requires the hippocampus to encode the memory, while nondeclarative memory does not.
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