Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. they have most likely suffered damage to the

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Desiree Howard

25 February, 09:09

Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. they have most likely suffered damage to the

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Salvador Sloan · Answer 1

They have most likely suffered damage to the hippocampus.

hippocampus is a part of our brain that played an extremely important role in spatial navigation for a long term memory.

A damage to this area could make us unable to access a certain information even though that information is already stored within our memory.