Three brain injury patients enter a neuropsychology clinic. One of them says to the other...JK: No, one of them has a brain injury that destroyed the hippocampus. The second has a brain injury limited to the amygdala. The third patient has damage to both. You attempt to condition all of them to fear a yellow square by pairing the yellow square with a mild shock. 

For each patient: 

1) Predict if the fear conditioning procedure would work or not, and  2) Indicate what the patient would remember about the fear conditioning procedure itself (Hint: The hippocampus is important for declarative episodic memories (events), but not for classical conditioning)

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Here are predictions for each patient in the context of fear conditioning and their memory 1 Patient with Hippocampal Damage Destroyed Hippocampus Fea... View the full answer