After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident,Arotza cannot form new memories.He can,however,remember events before the accident.Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

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Arotza's inability to form new memories after the motorcycle accident is a clear example of amnesia, specifically anterograde amnesia - the inability to form new memories after the onset of amnesia. Retroactive interference refers to new information interfering with the retrieval of old information, the misinformation effect refers to the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event, and déjà vu refers to the feeling of having already experienced a situation. None of these concepts fully explains Arotza's memory difficulty.

After Suffering a Brain Injury in a Motorcycle Accident,Arotza Cannot