... Gage described him as hardworking with good prospects ahead of him, however after the accident he was described as unreliable, nasty, vulgar, disrespectful with an inability to plan. They said 'he was no longer Gage'. Phineas Gage, like many other frontal lobe patients had problems with his memory, where he reported falsely, this deficit is termed confabulation. Those with frontal lobe damage can make momentary confabulations, which could be correct in the patients circumstances however aren't or in extreme cases fantastic confabulations which are recollections which are clearly fictional in the view of everyone else but the patient. Frontal lobe damage has shown to affect remembering and thinking and studies on memory impairment have highlighted this. The impairments I will be discussing are source amnesia, temporal order, metamemory, false recognition and defective recall. Schacter (1984) showed how frontal lobe damage is related to source amnesia. In his experiment colleagues spoke fictitious ...

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