GE CLST 73B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stream Processing, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Perceptual Learning
2 Apr 2017
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Idea that memory is not a unitary phenomenon o: comprised of different systems. Short-term memory: (working memory) memory that we can keep in a short time: you can continue to hold this memory if you keep rehearsing it o. Procedural memory is a big part of nondeclarative memory. Striatum composed of these: declarative memory. Information that can be verbalized: you can declare that you have this memory. Memory can be used flexibly in new situations: you can access the memory in one episode, association. Episodic memory: events in your life that make you who you are, tied to a specific time and place, memory is from your own perspective. No one has the same episodic memory as you: can remember incidental details, hippocampus plays a role in episodic memory for learning. Non-episodic memory/semantic memory: facts, feelings of familiarity, disconnected from the moment of learning. You don"t remember when you learned it.
