PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Disorder, Frontal Lobe

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

The frontal lobes are involved in many aspects of memory. Extensive neural networks connect the prefrontal cortex with other brain regions involved in memory, such as medial temporal areas. Deep encoding tasks will more likely lead to frontal activation than shallow ones. Frontal activation is a good predictor for which events will be remembered and which will not. Further activity in frontal brain regions involved in processing specific types of information is associated with better memory for that type of information. The medial prefrontal cortex is selectively active when people think about themselves, thus activity in this region predicts memory for information encoded about the self, but not for information encoding about others. The frontal lobes might also play a role in wm, because patients with damage to this region have difficulty following plans or goals, and monkeys with frontal lesions have impaired wm.