GE CLST 73B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Central Processing Unit, Long-Term Memory, Behavioral Neuroscience
29 Oct 2018
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A major insight in behavioral neuroscience is the idea that memory is not a unitary phenomenon but is comprised of different systems. These different system have different behavioral properties and depend on different brain systems. We can keep some small amount of info in mind at one time. Hey repeat this phone number for me. Amnesia patients can perform this but can"t move the short term memory into long term memory so they will repeat conversation you had ten minutes ago. Kind of like a central processing unit (can store things quickly but not a lot. Often short term memory is called working memory. Long term memory has a huge capacity. Kind of like a hard drive (lot of info on it but it will freeze often because it has a lot of cpu on it. Hippocampus is in medial temporal lobe (very important to memory) You are aware of what you are remembering.
