PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Free Recall
9 May 2017
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Memory processes and problems: acquisition failure to attend, storage transience, retrieval blocking. Decrease primacy effect: less attention paid to each word. Question: a friend has just had a stroke. You observe that, although he can hold a conversation and can recall events you shared in the past, when you leave and return the next day, he does not remember your previous visit. Temporal lobe: his executive control is still there; can still hold conversation so not frontal lobe. Uncovering the role of hippocampus: hm: age of seven, hm fell off bike and suffered from head injuries, age 10, seizures. Isolated and removed where his seizures originated from: unfortunately, it was a problem, he lost a chunk of his memory, couldn"t remember things. Intense amnesia: was actually the hippocampus that was damaged. It serves distinct role in memory: damage to it leads to really really bad things.
