PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Petal, Confabulation, Implicit Memory
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At the beginning of this lecture, professor dolderman had us listen to two lists of words and asked us to remember them. Complexity of memory: tying shoes is hard, with many factors contributing to the coordination needed for the activity. If we stored one piece of information, or even one subject of information in one neuron, we would run out of memory storage very quickly. We actually make use of our phenomenal 100 billion neurons, allowing different permutations of neural firing aka patterns. Different subsystems - hm couldn"t encode new memories, but he could extract them. First big discrimination: explicit (declarative) vs implicit (non declarative) memory. Explicit: i can describe to you the method by which my tie my shoes. Implicit: i can"t tell you how my brain tells my hands to tie my shoes. The memory system is involved in the long-term storage of information. At a deep level we are implicitly processing a bunch of stuff.