PSYC 3506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory, Prefrontal Cortex
13 Mar 2015
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* friday march 20th prof will be out of town. * midterm next wednesday (material end of march 4th) * exam april 16 at 9am same format as midterms. * memory development continued: the puzzle of infantile amnesia. Memory for specific events that happened to you. * demo asking earliest memory many do not remember past age of 3. * autobiographical/episodic memory: affective: memory full of emotions. * perceptual: involves what we perceive ex; remember wearing a red dress. Is just because of the passage of time? ( is not) * why can"t we remember early autobiographical events? ( 4 likely explanatiom) (i) changes in the brain (ii) changes in sense of self (iii)absence of social system in which to embed early memories (iv) incompatibility of encoding/retrieval. * why can"t we remember early autobiographical events? ( continue_ (1) changes in the brain. * explicit episodic memory relies on the ability to bind various event features:
