When a Person Loses Consciousness,working Memory Is Interrupted and Memories

question 18

Multiple Choice

When a person loses consciousness,working memory is interrupted and memories are abolished for all that happened for a variable period of time before the blow that caused unconsciousness.Why?

• A)The traumatic blow to the head caused a concussion through violent displacement of the brain in the skull.
• B)There was a deficiency of adequate blood flow to the brain.
• C)There was an interruption in the constant stream of neuron potentials to memory facilitation brain areas.
• D)Conflicting external interference prevents conversion of short-term to long-term memory.
• E)This is an area of neurological research that has not achieved any satisfying conclusions at the present time.

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