Hippocampusandspatialmemory.pptVIP

Hippocampus and spatial memory;Who is Jon?What does he suffer from?;Jon’s ability to navigate visually was tested using a video game. Duke Nukem (from 3D Realms Entertainment, Dallas, TX) The video game involves moving through a virtual scene, like a town, and shooting enemy forces (aliens). He was a good video game player in general, but his navigation was inaccurate. He was also expected to draw maps in the Speirs, Burgess et al. study and his maps were also inaccurate. - This shows his recollection impairment. - He also could not recognize scenes from the virtual town when such scenes were compared with foils, unlike control subjects who could. - spatial memory impairment. ? ;;? Results: Confirming his impaired episodic memory, Jon performed at chance on the context-dependent memory questions but was unimpaired on the object-recognition question (Spiers, Burgess, et al., 2001). ;;Jon’s relative impairment compared to control participants in the shifted-view versus same view conditions was not clear, so researchers tried to reduce control participants’ performance overall, by testing them with five randomly placed foil objects. Now, Jon’s differential deficit at shorter list lengths (4 and 7) became clear: - He performed significantly worse than controls in the shifted-view condition and performed better than them in the same-view condition. Jon’s impaired performance from a shifted view indicates impaired allocentric memory. By contrast, his relatively preserved same view performance on short lists could be due to familiarity-based recognition using preserved egocentric representations. The size of the differential deficit on short lists makes the test a potentially powerful indicator of hippocampal damage, given Jon’s generally spared recognition memory. It was concluded that: Jon’s deficits in spatial memory (from new viewpoints) show an inability to store object locations in an allocentric framework. A close relationship functioning of epis