PSYC3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Temporal Lobe, Long-Term Memory, Explicit Memory
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Faces are special to infants from the moment they are born. Newborns track face like stimuli further than scrambled or blank stimuli. Suggests babies are born with a bias for faces. Young babies 3-6 months can discriminate faces from non experienced races and primate species. Discrimination ability narrows to become own species and own race specific by 9 months. At birth infants can discriminate phonemes from all languages. Perceptual narrowing over the first year of life. Grammar is best learnt in sensitive period, little evidence for semantics in sensitive period. Memory is the group of mechanisms or processes by which experience shapes us, changing our brains and behaviour. Working memory- short term storage and mental manipulation of information- limited capacity system- temporary store- transformation- interface between perception, long term memory and action- highly accessible, easily erasable. Parts of working memory- central executive, phonological loop- episodic buffer- visuo spatial sketchpad. H. m- bilateral medial temporal lobe resection to control epileptic seizures.
