PSYC 211 Lecture 10: Week 10

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Yogita Chudasama

Document Summary

Refers to the process by which experiences change our nervous system. Involve specific relations between stimuli in the environment. Involve recognition and categorization of objects and situations. Refers to the process that encodes, stores and retrieves the learning experience. Can be consciously (explicitly) declared or involve implicit procedures. Have a personal frame of reference (give us context) Permits a form of mental time-travel (you can go back in time and look at what you"ve done or experienced) Are not equally vulnerable to disease and disruption. Memory allows us to function now and how we function in the future. He developed cephalitis that destroyed significant parts of his hippocampus, and he forgot and believes that he never reached consciousness. He is able to produce a beautiful piece of music on the piano and conduct an orchestra, but he cannot believe he is doing it. The aplysia is an invertebrate sea slug with a simple nervous system (20,000 neurons).