why do people with amnesia not forget their primary language?
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The same way amnesia patients don’t forget how to walk or ride a bike. There are different types of memories and amnesiacs would forget episodic memory and some biographical memory. So they might not remember what they were doing, when events happened, and who a certain person is.
However, language centres of the brain (Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and arcuate fasciculus) aren’t what’s affected during amnesia. When they are, we usually call this kind of brain damage “aphasia”.
However, it’s possible for them to forget certain words and terminologies that requires memorization. E.g. forgetting the meaning of “woke” as it was explained to them last week. But can remember what the word “run” means because it’s something that’s learned early on and part of everyday life.
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