Editing Visual memory (section)

=== Brain damage ===
[[Brain damage]] is another factor that has been found to have an effect on visual memory. Memory impairment affects both novel and familiar experiences. Poor memory after damage to the brain is usually considered to result from information being lost or rendered inaccessible.<ref name="BUSSEY">{{cite journal|last1=Bussey|first1=T.J.|last2=Cowell|first2=R.A.|last3=McTighe|first3=S.M.|last4=Saksida|first4=L.M.|author-link4=Lisa Saksida|last5=Winters|first5=B.D.|date=2010|title=Paradoxical False Memory for Objects After Brain Damage|url=https://semanticscholar.org/paper/b0e6865b21692d0a83d167f64e0c9e6e39fde949|journal=Science|volume=330|issue=6009|pages=1408–1410|bibcode=2010Sci...330.1408M|doi=10.1126/science.1194780|pmid=21127256|s2cid=35543994}}</ref> With such impairment it is assumed that it must be due to the incorrect interpretation of previously encountered information as being novel.<ref name="BUSSEY" /> In experiments testing rats' object recognition memory it was found that memory impairment can be the opposite, that there was a tendency to treat novel experiences as familiar. A possible solution for this impairment could be the use of a visual-restriction procedure that reduces interference.<ref name="BUSSEY" />