

Source amnesia is the inability to remember where, when or how previously learned information has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge.Often there is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss. Agnosia is the inability to process sensory information.Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.Retrograde amnesia is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.Proactive inhibition refers to interference with retention of new information due to retention of previous information.Retroactive inhibition refers to interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information.Interference refers to the loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information.

Extraordinary Memory Events and Disorders
