Question

Henry Molaison (patient H.M.) had severe epilepsy that was alleviated by bilateral temporal lobe surgery. Following this surgery, Molaison had

a. deficits in implicit but not explicit memories.

b. profound deficits in both implicit and explicit memories.

c. deficits in explicit but not implicit memories

d. no memory deficits.

Answer 1

c) deficits in explicit but not implicit memories.

Henry Molaison (H.M) had a bilateral temporal surgery inorder to cure epilepsy , which is partially sucessful,

He developed retrograde amnesia ,  the loss of memory which was learned in early life.

His implicit memories were intact , which inlcude working memory , but there occurs a deficit in explicit memory.

Explicit memories are stored in the cerebrum and implicit memories are stored in cerebellum.

Implicit memories are certain thing like learning to ride a bike etc ,where as explicit memories include learning a book .

Option A is wrong because ,his explicit memory is lost .

Option B is wrong because he doesnot lost his both memories.

Option D is wrong because after surgery there occur some memory loss.