Practice question · Sort into groups
A patient's hippocampi are destroyed. Sort each ability by whether it is lost or retained.
Groups: Lost · Retained
- Recalling their own wedding years ago
- Learning a new coworker's name
- Remembering a fact read five minutes ago
- Feeling hunger and thirst normally
Hints
- The hippocampus forms NEW long-term memories; old memories and drives sit elsewhere.
- Anything requiring a NEW memory is lost; old memories and hypothalamic drives are retained.
Show the answer
Lost: Learning a new coworker's name, Remembering a fact read five minutes ago
Retained: Recalling their own wedding years ago, Feeling hunger and thirst normally
Why
New names and recent facts require forming new memories, so they are lost; old memories (the wedding) and hypothalamus-driven hunger and thirst are retained. The hippocampus is needed to FORM new memories, not to store old ones or run drives.
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