PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Basal Ganglia, Frontal Lobe, Memory Consolidation

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: diaz

Document Summary

Despite our brain"s vast storage capacity, we do not store information like a library would. Our brain networks encode, store, and retrieve the information that forms our complex memories. Explicit memory system: the frontal lobes and hippocampus. Storage: the process of retaining encoded information over time. Retrieval: the process of getting information out of memory storage. The network that processes and stores your explicit memories for facts and. Explicit memories: memory of facts and experiences that one can episodes includes the frontal lobes and hippocampus consciously know and declare . The left and right frontal loves process different information. The left lobe is responsible for like remembering and holding in a password. Calling up a visual part scene would more likely activate the right frontal lobe. The hippocampus and nearby brain networks are active as people form explicit memories of names and images, and events. Hippocampus: a neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage.