Memory and habits

Yet whenever he was hungry he got up and propelled himself straight to the kitchen to get something to eat | Every day he was asked where the kitchen was in his house, and every day he didn't have the foggiest idea. | In 1992 a retired engineer in San Diego contracted a rare brain disease that wiped out his memory. | Studies of this man led scientists to a breakthrough: the part of our brains where habits are stored has nothing to do with memory or reason. | It offered proof of what the US psychologist William James noticed more than a century ago - that humans "are mere walking bundles of habits".