PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Brodmann Area 10, Prefrontal Cortex, Episodic Memory
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Types of knowledge: procedural knowledge, knowledge about how to do things, knowledge that is acquired through extensive practice. It is hard to extinguish or change this knowledge: ex. How to solve puzzles, play instruments: declarative knowledge, knowledge about facts and events. It is acquired and stored, and it is organized. It is easily forgotten: episodic knowledge: what you have experienced. Semantic knowledge: factual knowledge, not referenced to own experiences. Explicit episodic learning vs implicit procedural learning: cohen and corkin, they had people learn the tower of hanoi puzzle, results, normal people: we can learn sets of procedures to solve this puzzle. We can transfer these sets to other puzzles. And we have episodic memory of doing this puzzle: amnesic people: they can learn to solve the puzzle. There is a transfer of learning from one puzzle to another, but they have no episodic memory of doing the puzzle itself. Shows a dissociation between episodic memory and procedural knowledge.
