Although brain-damaged patients did not consciously recall having watched a sad film, their sad emotion persisted to the lingering effects of

Their sad emotion persist is because of the lingering effects of the hippocampus in which is also responsible of providing emotional responses and this may be the reason as to why the person is still experiencing the emotion despite of not having to recall the film.

Dementias

Explanation:

Dementias of the hippocampus are diseases in which memory and other intellectual capacities are impaired with respect to people's previous mental state. This diagnosis must meet certain requirements to be established. Within these clinical diagnoses is:

-Deterioration of short-term and long-term memory

- Cognitive disorders such as aphasia, apraxia, agnosia (failures in recognition but sensory function follows)

The agnosia is the dementia present in this case, when people do not remember watching the movie however they have the feeling of sadness that caused them to see it for the first time

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