PSYCO258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala
5 Mar 2019
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Both types of photos activated similar brain structures: medial temporal lobe (mtl) (episodic, parietal cortex (processing of scenes) A-photos activated more of the: prefrontal cortex (information about self, hippocampus (recollection) What events are remembered well: significant events in a person"s life, highly emotional events transition points. Participants over the age of 40 asked to recall events in their lives. Memory is high for recent events and for events that occurred in adolescence and early adulthood (between 10 and 30 years of age) The self-image hypothesis is that memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person"s self-image or life identity is being formed. People assume identities during adolescence and young adulthood. Many transitions occur between ages 10 and 30. The cognitive hypothesis is that encoding is better during periods of rapid change that are followed by stability. Evidence from those who emigrated to the us after young adulthood indicates reminiscence bump is shifted.
