PSYO 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Spatial Memory, Temporal Lobe, Grid Cell

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1011
• Professor: Leanne Stevens,Shelley Adamo,Kevin Duffy,Jennifer Stamp

Document Summary

Possible step 2: kandel believed that memory are created with molecular storage, he discovered creb (protein, it promotes growth of new synapses. 2: he did a number of experiments by blocking creb and found that the memory was not as strong, proves how important creb is to memory. Working memory: prefrontal cortex directs attention, very important in working memory, also important for executive function, task-specific cortical areas, wernicke"s area, located primary auditory cortex, takes the sounds and understands language. 3: activated when we use our phonological loop, occipital lobe. Timeline of hippocampal lesion experiment: take the rats have them swim in the pool lesion of their brain, sham lesion or regular lesion, researchers would look at the hippocampus to see what happened to their memory. Superior recall for emotional material: experiment showed people videos ranging from very emotional films to very boring films, evaluated people"s emotional reaction towards the film and the graphed it.