Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Clive Wearing, Frontal Lobe, Interference Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Frontal lobe damage: personality change and difficulty with emotional control. Memory: capacity of individuals to retain and utilize information for various periods of time: acquisition, retention, retrieval, consolidation of new memories is an important factor of memory. Flashed the matrix and asked participants to recall: 0% accuracy, 20ms, partial report technique, high, medium and low tone. Buffer between stss and longterm: brief duration (longer than stss, limited capacity (7+/- 2 bits of information) Brown peterson task: remember 3 letters, asked to recall post serial 3 task, results show low memory performance, rehearsal of the letters is prevented by the counting task, recall for 3 seconds lead to 50% accuracy. 2: phenomenon of release from proactive interference, proactive interference: forgetting currently learned information produced by interference from previously learned material. Forgetting of current info brought about by previous info: retroactive interference: event learning leads to forgetting of a previously learned event. Categories were switched lead to a release of proactive interference.