Patterns of memory performance

Question 1

Average immediate - impaired delay - impaired recognition

Answer 1

a. (slide) Typical of damage to the medial temporal structures and lateral temporal lobe; (his notes) typical of damage to the limbic memory areas - hippocampus
- Suggests problems with consolidation/ storage
b. temporal lobe
c. key here is impaired delayed and recognition - immediate may range from average to impaired

Question 2

Impaired immediate - low - average delay with high proportion retained - low-average or better recognition

Answer 2

• Typical of depression or subcortical damage ([notes}frontal lobe damage because of impaired executive functions, will not develop or apply an effective strategy to search for and retrieve stored information)
• Suggests problems with encoding
• Key here is recognition is superior to spontaneous recall - immediate and delay recall may range from low-average to impaired

Question 3

Discrepancy between auditory-verbal and visual-graphic recall

Answer 3

Lateralized damage - problem may be memory specific or more general verbal or spatial deficits - need to look at performance on other tests to discriminate between these