The movie Memento portrays a man named Leonard who suffers from a rare form of memory loss, that prevents him from creating any new long term memories, called Anterograde Amnesia. While suffering from this condition he is actively looking for the man who caused his illness and murdered his wife. Along the way he encounters suspicious characters, whose motives aren’t clear until the end of the movie. Meanwhile, Leonard uses photos with notes on them to try to make sense of his life.
In the scene where Leonard gets attacked you see him lying on the floor with blood oozing out of the side of his head. The part of the brain associated with memory also happens to be located on either side of the head. The temporal lobe is what I assume was damaged …show more content…
Sensory memory turns into short term memory, or the working memory, and if you pay attention to it long enough from there after actively rehearsing the information, it is stored as long term memory. After his fight with Natalie, Leonard continued to repeat the information he wanted to write down, so that he wouldn 't lose it while looking for a pen. This made me think that rehearsal wasn’t the problem, because he still forgot the information after he was distracted by Natalie slamming the car door shut. He can’t keep short term memories for longer than a few minutes, because the area of the brain that works with long term memory is damaged, so he can no longer encode and store the …show more content…
There’s a scene where he pays an escort to place the items around his bedroom and make a small sound in the middle of the night to wake him up. He used the small sound and the items around the room to trigger his memory of the night his wife died. Also, another retrieval cue would be the tattoo on his hand that said “ remember Sammy Jenkins” would lead to the flashback of him and his relationship with Sammy. The movie showed us how the reconstruction of memories can be misleading. An example in this movie would be when he remembers pinching his wife’s thigh, but at the end of the movie we realize he was actually giving his wife
In the scene where Leonard gets attacked you see him lying on the floor with blood oozing out of the side of his head. The part of the brain associated with memory also happens to be located on either side of the head. The temporal lobe is what I assume was damaged …show more content…
Sensory memory turns into short term memory, or the working memory, and if you pay attention to it long enough from there after actively rehearsing the information, it is stored as long term memory. After his fight with Natalie, Leonard continued to repeat the information he wanted to write down, so that he wouldn 't lose it while looking for a pen. This made me think that rehearsal wasn’t the problem, because he still forgot the information after he was distracted by Natalie slamming the car door shut. He can’t keep short term memories for longer than a few minutes, because the area of the brain that works with long term memory is damaged, so he can no longer encode and store the …show more content…
There’s a scene where he pays an escort to place the items around his bedroom and make a small sound in the middle of the night to wake him up. He used the small sound and the items around the room to trigger his memory of the night his wife died. Also, another retrieval cue would be the tattoo on his hand that said “ remember Sammy Jenkins” would lead to the flashback of him and his relationship with Sammy. The movie showed us how the reconstruction of memories can be misleading. An example in this movie would be when he remembers pinching his wife’s thigh, but at the end of the movie we realize he was actually giving his wife