NSC 3311 Lecture 19: Forgetting
27 Jul 2016
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Note this lecture series is a continuation of the memory lecture series. Video: do you know what the face side of a penny looks like: behavioral. Distractions: affect attention and encoding, leading to failure. Study strategies: when reading ( or re- reading) Infantile amnesia: the brain is just not set up to encode and consolidate info at that point. Brain damage- bilateral hippocampal lesion: the brain not set up well enough to remember, what helps or hinders retrieval. Encoding specificity: being back in the right context cue. Blocking: not forgetting its just blocked when we don t have cue, decrease, theories of forgetting ( when the problem isn"t just encoding and retrieval, decay. Retroactive interference has a much more effect on forgetting: consolidation. Activity at synapse: at the beginning of the day all synapses are at a certain weight, as the day progresses, there is an increase in synaptic weight.
