PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Episodic Memory
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University of toronto psychology for famous for memory research: morris moscovitch created the portable consolidation theory of memory. This is how memories travel from the hippocampal area, to other parts of the brain: fergus straight is one of the co-leads in the idea of levels of processing. When you are trying to remember something, processing it in a deeper way, is a more effective way to learn: endel tulvig created the idea between episodic and semantic memories. Talking about the role of priming or automatic cuing of things in memory. We use attention to call upon the stuff that is relevant to us: we use attention to call upon the stuff that is important to us and this information enters what we call short term memory. We now call this working memory, it is your moment to moment consciousness. There are other things that you might want to hold onto.
