HIST10014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Temporal Lobe, Semantic Memory, Explicit Memory
6 Aug 2018
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Evidence gained from studies of amnesic patients that shows the the two forms of memory are dissociable they rely on di erent neurological networks in the brain. Knowledge that can be consciously recollected and recalled to other people. Ended tulving proposed in 1972 that declarative memory can be sub-divided into. Episodic memory knowledge of personally experienced events when/where memories contextualised memories mental travel time. Conscious knowledge of temporally dated, spatially located and personally. Knowledge about words and concepts, their properties and interrelations require the retrieval of an explicit (consciously reportable) description of knowledge experience events or episodes . Can be encoded, stored and retrieve even when the hippocampus and associated areas in. Revealed when previous experiences facilitates (improves) performance on a task. Improvement in performance does not require conscious recollection of prior learning. We get better at things with experience and practice. Expressed as a change in behaviour without conscious recollection. Do not require description of contents of memory.
