1. Why investigate?
• Our brains are like
computers; only when
things go wrong, can we
make any assumptions
Studying brain-
about which part controls damaged
which functions.
How do they become
patients
damaged?
• Accident, injury, illness or What do they look at?
degenerative condition: • Brain scans, testing
dementia. of functions,
interview, historical
Who investigates?
info.
• Neurologists,
Neuropsychologists.

2. L/O: to be aware of the rationale and key terms
for using case studies to evaluate memory
models.
Key words
• Impaired:
• Intact:
• Left / right hemisphere:
• Frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes:

3. L/O: to be aware of the rationale and key terms
for using case studies to evaluate memory
models.
Case Study H.M. K.F. C.W.
Why were they
studied?
What damage did
they have to the
brain?
Impaired?
Intact?

4. ‘The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat’
– Oliver Sacks.
• Read pages 7-10.
What is impaired
vs. intact?
Read to the ‘post-script’.