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Chapter 14 Relational Learning and Amnesia Human Anterograde Amnesia Anterograde amnesia - difficulty in learning new information, due to head injury or certain degenerative brain diseases; pure form is rare Retrograde amnesia – inability to remember events that occurred prior to brain damage Korsakoff’s syndrome – permanent anterograde amnesia caused by brain damage resulting from chronic alcoholism or malnutrition (due to thiamine deficiency); also have confabulations (reporting of memories that did not occur, without the intention to deceive) Anterograde amnesia can be caused by damage to