how can people with amnesia do not forget how to speak and their language?

Answer 1

This is a really interesting subject and one that even the top neurologist fully understand.

The brain is split into several different sections. You have the speech and language section, the short term memory, the long term memory, motor function, and all sorts of different areas. People with amnesia have had some damaged caused to the long or short term memory part of the brain. Some people with strokes ( which is a form of brain damage) will forget how to walk or talk or swollow.

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Answer 2

True amnesia usually affects long term memory. Long term memory is broken into two types, procedural and declaritive. Thinking back to ungrad, I remember remembering the two as this: procedural is the how to, declaritive is the what. In other words declaritive are facts, birth dates, names, etc. Procedural is the more ingrained skills such as riding a bike, speaking, walking, language, etc. Now there are different neurological disorders that do affect the procedural memory which cause people to forget how to speak, walk, etc. True amnesica will not affect this, rather is affects the declarative memory. As one of the other people have said some people forget how to swallow. This isn't really memory, rather it is more of a problem to the central nervous system thing. Although the central nervous system does control memory; memory is just one feature. The CNS controls other parts of the body such as body temperature, emotion, touch, hunger, etc.

Answer 3

Amnesia usually affects short term memory and recent long term memories from the accident up to a few years in the past depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. Language and vocabulary are learned since childhood and are embedded in one's long term memory so it is usually not affected.

Answer 4

Amnesia only affects the memory of the past . But if you take dementia it is different . The person may be suffering from the memory of daily activities . Like eating they will not be knowing how to eat . In dementia they forget their language .