PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Short-Term Memory, Implicit Memory, Episodic Memory
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Henry molaison (hm) had uncontrolled seizures, the anticonvulsive drugs at the time couldn"t control them. Underwent surgery, removed parts of his medial temporal lobes, including hippocampus. Seizures were quieted, but lost ability to form new long term memory. Short term memory was intact but it could not be transformed to long term memory. Miller studied him for 40 years, tracing task: his performance improved gradually, proving he could retain some information. Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. (incomplete, biased and distorted) To get info into memory person needs to attend pay attention . Visual attention is selective and serial (anna treisman) We automatically identify primitive features, such as color, shape, orientation, and movement. Parallel processing: allows us to process info from different visual features at the same time by focusing on targets over distracters.
