Memory, illustration

Illustration of the areas of the brain affected in the case of transient global amnesia, TGA), a pathology affecting short-term memory. Two types of memory are concerned in short-term memory, controlled and coordinated by the pre-frontal cortex, green), the central administrator: -phonological memory, represented by white arrows, affecting the BrocaÕs area, purple, production of spoken words, and WernickeÕs area, pink, auditory and oral language, comprehension of these words, -visuo-spatial memory represented by the occipital cortex, blue, treatment of visual and spatial information). (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)