PSYC 3430H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Spreading Activation

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3430H
• Professor: Nader Rebecca

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Tested out by reading out a series of definitions of obscure words and asking participants to name the object. Ex: a musical instrument comprising a frame holding a series of tubes struck by hammers. Feeling that you are right is often a good indication that. Recall is 50% better when you think you know. Tested memory for salient public events and famous faces. Damage to prefrontal cortex hinders recall for even very well learned information from across our lifespans. Retrieval is a progression form one or more cues to target memory with the aim of making that target available. Retrieval is the process of reactivating a memory trace. Depends on the prefrontal cortex and the medial temporal lobe (mtl) Influences ongoing cognition: influences the state of the brain. Cues are used because memory traces are linked. Activating one trace of memory increases the likelihood of another being retrieved. Episodic memory is encoded by binding together features of an event.