PSYC23H3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 PSYC23
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> want to know how infants learn to regulate stress and how that learning affects their ability to remember. Moderate stress = excellent memory > may help memory. Too much stress reduced memory, because it might decrease explicit memory (cannot recall), have some implicit though consciously remember) >> memory is more like an evolving construct. We will learn how memory is constructed and changes overtime. Emotions seem to given an extra association that enhance the formation of memory. Moderate stress, not negative cascade effect of chronic stress. Neurons are experimentally induced to fire, they continue to fire > they hold the memory. Neurons keep firing (does not turn off for a while) here where those memory is stored. Stress receptor in hippocampus are directly involve with enhancement and disruption of memory. Way too much cortisol: can disrupt long term potentiation. Hippocampus directly related to neuronal model of memory.
