Chapter 12- Memory
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- short term memory
- allows us to remember phone number just to dial it (a few minutes)
- hippocampus
- responsible for short-term memory
- sensory memory
- results from visual, auditory or olfactory input (last less than 1 second)
- long term potentiation
- results from long term memory- repeated input of knowledge-> repeated neuron stimulation-> cytological changes-> increase rate/magnitude of firing and neuron connections
- cerebral cortex
- where long term memory is stored
- frontal lobe
- responsible for integrating short and long term memory...ability to think ahead and predict consequences
- declaritive/explicit memory
- memory we have conscious awareness of accessing
- semantic
- type of declaritive: associated w/ words & numbers
- episodic
- type of declaritive: associated w/ emotions & sensations
- procedural/ implicit
- acquired and recalled subconsiously...acquired through repitition
- lobotomy
- destruction of frontal lobes (1900's)
- visual/spatial
- large hippocampus (london cab drivers)
- elephants & memory
- use memory to find underground water sources during drought. animals cannot plan ahead and create thought.
- long-term memory
- important info...entire life