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Brain damage that leads to anterograde amnesia also causes retrograde amnesia for a certain period before the injury with the ones closest to the injury being the most damaged.
This tendency is particularly strong when the damaged area is the hippocampus.
The blocking of recall for a limited time caused by learning or recall of different associations.
Proactive interference
When too much related information is input which creates too many associations, making it harder to recall a precise one.
A state caused by long and sustained cognitive activity which tires the individual out mentally.
The upper part of the medial temporal lobe consisting of the dentate gyrus, hippocampus, subiculum and the entorhinal cortex.
A region in the hippocampal formation where the information going in and out the hippocampus go through.
It sends input to the hippocampus through the perforant pathways.
A region next to the dentate gyrus involved in memory retrieval and the encoding of our surroundings.
A.K.A. The subicular region
A region on top of the hippocampus, involved in depression, memory formation and connects information from various brain regions together.
Interference that occurs before the learning
Interference that occurs after the learning.
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