Clive Wearing Phenomenon
Study 01: Clive Wearing, studied by Oliver Sacks (2007)
Introduction to study:
Clive Wearing was an English musician and musicologist. In 1985 when he was in his mid-forties he was infected by a viral infection encephalitis. It caused brain damage in the hippocampus and after that he was affected with anterograde and retrograde amnesia. His memory lasted from 07-30 seconds and he was unable to create new memories. He could not transfer information from short-term memory to long-term memory. An MRI scan showed that Wearing’s brain’s hippocampus and some of the frontal regions has been damaged because of the viral infection. But he could still conduct music, sing, read and write.
Findings:
The link between cognition and physiology is clearly …show more content…
So that knowledge were there before his hippocampus got damaged by the virus, and because of that we can come to a conclusion that long-term memory is way too complicated than what Atkinson and Shiffrin expresses in their model of multi-store memory.
2. Enriched data
3. In-depth and realistic study
4. Study of a phenomenon that could not be able to be produced ethically in a laboratory setting
5. Supports interaction of cognition and physiology in amnesia
6. Finding are more valid that what
Weaknesses:
1. Sample size is small.
2. Because of the small sample size the findings cannot be applied to a generalized category or to all people.
3. MRI scans can sometimes over-interpret, so it can be not accurate.
4. Results can be biased because of researcher’s beliefs, values and opinions.
5. Case study results are influenced by the researcher’s interpretations.
Study 02: Kent Cochrane (Shayna Rosenbaum)
Introduction:
Kent Cochrane also known as K.C. had a motorcycle accident that caused a traumatic brain injury when he was 30 years of age. Although his hippocampus got damaged he could still recall semantic memories. He could remember his parents, friends, but he couldn’t recall any details relating to those
Introduction to study:
Clive Wearing was an English musician and musicologist. In 1985 when he was in his mid-forties he was infected by a viral infection encephalitis. It caused brain damage in the hippocampus and after that he was affected with anterograde and retrograde amnesia. His memory lasted from 07-30 seconds and he was unable to create new memories. He could not transfer information from short-term memory to long-term memory. An MRI scan showed that Wearing’s brain’s hippocampus and some of the frontal regions has been damaged because of the viral infection. But he could still conduct music, sing, read and write.
Findings:
The link between cognition and physiology is clearly …show more content…
So that knowledge were there before his hippocampus got damaged by the virus, and because of that we can come to a conclusion that long-term memory is way too complicated than what Atkinson and Shiffrin expresses in their model of multi-store memory.
2. Enriched data
3. In-depth and realistic study
4. Study of a phenomenon that could not be able to be produced ethically in a laboratory setting
5. Supports interaction of cognition and physiology in amnesia
6. Finding are more valid that what
Weaknesses:
1. Sample size is small.
2. Because of the small sample size the findings cannot be applied to a generalized category or to all people.
3. MRI scans can sometimes over-interpret, so it can be not accurate.
4. Results can be biased because of researcher’s beliefs, values and opinions.
5. Case study results are influenced by the researcher’s interpretations.
Study 02: Kent Cochrane (Shayna Rosenbaum)
Introduction:
Kent Cochrane also known as K.C. had a motorcycle accident that caused a traumatic brain injury when he was 30 years of age. Although his hippocampus got damaged he could still recall semantic memories. He could remember his parents, friends, but he couldn’t recall any details relating to those