COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Tabula Rasa, Long-Term Memory, Mnemonic
24 Nov 2014
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Cogs 100 - introduction to cognitive science - lecture 28: memory. Memory capacity to retain information over time. Allows us to learn from previous experiences. Systems can be characterized by coding, capacity, storage duration, and recall. Aristotle compared the human mind to a blank slate and theorized that all humans are born free of any knowledge and are merely the sum of their experiences. Later it was thought that humans have two types of memory. Natural memory inborn one that everyone uses everyday. Artificial memory trained though learning and practice of a variety of mnemonic techniques. 18th century english philosopher david hartley was the first to hypothesize that memories were encoded through hidden motions in the nervous system. Ribot"s law amnesia has a time-gradient recent memories are more likely to be lost than the more remote memories. Although in practice this is actually not always the case.
