PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Limbic System, Hideki Matsutake, Episodic Memory
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Syncretic: all of the information of the experience/sensation. The information is just there in memory and it can be pulled up by any of these sense memories. Top down (from abstract to concrete: you have a rule in your head and you apply it to the world, ruled by logic, system 2, examples: making a diagnosis; racism. Bottom - up (from concrete to abstract: what you"ve learned from experiences, expressive, system 1. You need top-down to control the knowledge/creativity that comes from bottom-up. Need bottom-up to expand the rules and logic in top-down (2) system type. Feed forward loop (predefined response to a signal: reaction, recognize situation, evaluate, reach to emotional memories (limbic system), brings up episodic memory, conditioned emotional response. Loop you think of a memory, schema opens the reaction that takes it back to a schema and so on and so forth: bottom-up.
