PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Metamemory, Recognition Memory, Aging Brain

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3330
• Professor: Mark Fenske

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04/05/2017 lecture 31: memory across the lifespan (lecture 18 slides) Implicit (not involving conscious recollection) or explicit (involving conscious recollection) Infants trained in crib but tested in kitchen will not kick. Infants have good ltm for associations between objects that are seen together: duration of ltm is even better when provided with reminders allowing integration of this info and the original memory. Development cognitive neuroscience: numerous developments during the first two years of life that contribute to memory, attention improves, language starts to be acquired, world knowledge accumulates, the brain is developing. Lateral prefrontal cortex is the last frontal lobe region to fully mature: axons in central nervous system continue to myelinate over the first year, speeds up processing and learning. Implicit memory involves simpler processes, and relies much less on working memory, relevant knowledge, memory strategies, and metamemory. Impaired memory is the earliest and best predi(cid:272)tor of the o(cid:374)set of alzhei(cid:373)er(cid:859)s.