Amnesia (VIDEO)

Johns Hopkins University

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She no longer recognizes a Van Gogh, but can tell you how to prepare a watercolor palette. The sharp contrasts in an amnesia patient's memory profile suggest conventional wisdom about how the brain stores knowledge is incorrect.

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Len Turner/JHU

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