The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
by Michael P. Lynch · 21 Mar 2016 · 230pp · 61,702 words
there is a sharp difference between knowing how and knowing facts seems to have some empirical support as well. Consider the famous case of the patient HM. HM was an epileptic who had undergone a lobectomy. He was then observed to have severe anterograde amnesia. In other words, he would forget events
Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
by Barbara Tversky · 20 May 2019 · 426pp · 117,027 words
-axis specialization of the human hippocampus. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(5), 230–240. H.M. Corkin, S. (2002). What’s new with the amnesic patient HM? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(2), 153. Milner, B., Corkin, S., & Teuber, H. L. (1968). Further analysis of the hippocampal amnesic syndrome: 14-year follow-up
Know Thyself
by Stephen M Fleming · 27 Apr 2021
in the mid-1980s. Arthur Shimamura, then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, was following up on the famous discovery of patient “HM,” who had become forever unable to form new memories after brain surgery originally carried out to cure his epilepsy. The surgery removed HM’s medial