PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Short-Term Memory, Motor Learning, Clive Wearing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Caitlyn Mc Coleman

Document Summary

Lecture 6 short term and working memory: transfer from short term to long term memory, short term sensory memory, short term memory capacity, loss of short term memory information, working memory. Sensory memory - buffer: disrupted transfer from stm to ltm, hm - head injury - seizure - hippocampus surgery. Surgery to relieve epilepsy caused catastrophic amnesia: motor memory, mirror tracing, even if hm couldn"t remember doing the task, he had motor memory, because their motor memory is still intact, amnesiacs can sometimes phone home. From hm: memory is not evenly distributed throughout the brain, there are separate memory system, patient kf - impaired stm but intact ltm. Still able to read music and play piano. Sperling: memorize 12 letters, whole report and partial report, visual short term (iconic) memory. Duration: 250 ms maximum: auditory short term (echoic) memory. Span of apprehension: george miller"s magic number 7 (plus or minus 2)