Case Study Bill Johnson's Temporal Lobe

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I will like to assume that Bill Johnson’s temporal lobe was severely injured, and because of that he has hard time recalling events; especially his Olympic race, which was a monumental win for the U.S.; The temporal lobes focus on memory and learning and Bill has exemplified that those areas are lacking significantly, and that’s what had lead me to believe that Bill Johnson’s temporal lobes was the injured part of his brain. In addition, in Johnson’s article, he mentioned that he doesn’t recall his accident after watching his own tape. However, he then went on and explain how he lost his memory, so that unquestionably gave me the assumption that his amygdala was damaged and that part of the brain is located in the temporal lobes, which seem

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