When Penfield Stimulated the Temporal Cortex of Alert and Awake

question 82

Multiple Choice

 When Penfield stimulated the temporal cortex of alert and awake brain surgery patients, he found that they ____.

• A) went into spastic convulsions
• B) remembered specific events from earlier in their lives in great detail
• C) lost all memory for events during and shortly preceding the stimulation
• D) had a dream-like experience

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Definitions:

Events

Occurrences or happenings that are noteworthy.

Brain

The organ of the body in the head that controls functions, movements, sensations, and thoughts.

Interference Theory

A theory explaining how new information can interfere with the retrieval of old information from memory.

Forgetting

The loss or degradation of memory over time, a natural process that can be influenced by various factors such as relevance and frequency of memory retrieval.