PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Temporal Lobe, Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory
20 Oct 2015
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Episodic (events) medial temporal lobe: implicit (non-declarative) Priming (perceptual, conceptual) cortex: case where you hear/see something. Procedural (skills and habits) striatum: learn a new skill (gradually) Associative learning (classical and operant conditioning) : semantic and episodic memory amydala/cerebellum, semantic memory. Memory for facts about the world: can a canary sing, who is the secretary of state of the us, e. g. Barack obama is the president of the us, california is facing severe drought conditions, etc. Divorced from context (don"t remember where or when exactly learned: episodic memory. Memory for events in our lives (temporal organization: what did you eat for breakfast, where were you for the super bowl game, e. g. I got soaked in the rain yesterday walking to class, my first grade teacher couldn"t pronounce my name the first day of school. Relate to a specific time or place.
