Vicari's case study

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    • who did Vicari do a case study on and when?
      8 year old girl
      2007
    • give details about the eight year old girl?
      Suffered brain damage due to the removal of a tumour
    • what did the girl demonstrate?
      Deficiencies in her episodic LTM functions, especially in creating new episodic memories, but was still able to CREATE AND RECALL SEMANTIC MEMORIES
    • What does the case study suggest?
      that EM snd SM (semantic memory) are separate systems using different brain areas, with the hippocampus associated with EM and the perirhinal cortex with semantic LTM
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