PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Vladimir Bekhterev, Sergei Korsakoff, Carl Wernicke
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Lecture 8 notes chapter 11 memory and learning. Learning: deals with how experience changes the brain; the process of acquiring new information. Memory: deals with how these changes are stored and subsequently reactivated; the ability to store and retrieve information and the specific information stored in the brain. 11. 1 amnesic effects of bilateral medial temporal lobectomy; a brief history of. Theodore ribalt: the disease of memory (1881, called attention to the nature and course of memory loss in dementia, ribot"s law" to describe the temporal gradient commonly observed in retrograde amnesia. Digit span: h. m. can repeat digits, provided that the time between learning and recall is within the duration of stm. Block-tapping memory-span test: this test demonstrated that h. m. "s amnesia was global not limited to one sensory modality: three major scientific contributions of h. m. "s case. Medial temporal lobes are involved in memory. Stm, remote memory, and ltm are distinctly separate. Memory may exist but not be recalled; implicit memory.
