... relatively selective memory deficits (Mayes & Montaldi. 1997). And, with this 'selectivity' has come a better understanding of how memory cognitively functions and is laid out within the human brain. As Gazzaniga, Ivry and Mangun (1998) remark, it is now known that 'amnesia' (general term meaning any loss of memory) can take on many forms, such as the inability to learn new things or a loss of previous knowledge, which can differ for short-term and long-term memory, including semantic knowledge, episodic knowledge, priming and procedural knowledge. It is also widely accepted that memory can be broken into the stages of encoding, storage and retrieval with memory failure being a possibility at anyone of these stages. This would deductively lead one to the idea that the lay out of memory within the human brain must be multifarious enough to allow for one form of memory to be damaged without impairing all ...

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