While amnesic patients may not have difficulty imagining components of future activities, they tend to have difficulty integrating them into a whole, a problem Hassabis et al. (2007)attribute to:
A)Limited visual short-term memory span
B)Lack of hope for the future sometimes experienced by depressed amnesic patients
C)Faulty echoic memory
D)The role of the hippocampus in spatial processing as well as memory
E)Damage to the angular gyrus

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The role of the hippocampus in spatial processing as well as memory is responsible for integrating components of an event in order to create a coherent whole. Amnesic patients have damage to the hippocampus, which makes it difficult for them to integrate various components of future activities into a cohesive whole.

While Amnesic Patients May Not Have Difficulty Imagining Components of Future