Question 1 Report
Read the information below about a patient who cannot form new long-term memories after surgery to treat severe epilepsy. The patient can still improve at a mirror-tracing task over several days, although he says each session feels new.
(a) Which type of memory is most likely damaged? [1]
(b) Explain why his mirror-tracing performance can improve. [2]
(a) Episodic memory / declarative memory [1] (b) Mirror tracing uses procedural memory [1]. Procedural memory can remain intact because it depends on different brain systems from the damaged memory system [1].
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