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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Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories after the onset of the amnesia, while retrograde amnesia refers to difficulties in recalling memories before the onset of amnesia. Arotza's ability to recall events before the accident but not form new memories afterwards suggests that he has anterograde amnesia. The serial position effect refers to the tendency to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than those in the middle, and iconic memory refers to very brief visual sensory memory.

After Suffering a Brain Injury in a Motorcycle Accident, Arotza