PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Episodic Memory, Lexical Decision Task
11 Dec 2015
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Context-dependent learning: a pattern of data in which materials learned in one setting are well remembered when the person returns to that setting, but less well remembered in other settings. Context reinstatement: there will be improved memory performance if we re-create the context that was in place during learning. There is an advantage for thinking about meaning and an advantage for matched learning and test conditions. Connections can change the meaning of what is remembered. Learning a sentence the man lifted the piano vs the man tuned the piano makes one remember a piano as something heavy vs something that plays nice music. Encoding specificity: the tendency, when memorizing, to place in memory both the materials to be learned and also some amount of the context of those materials. As a result, these materials will be recognized as familiar, later on, only is the materials appear again in a similar context.
