PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Synaptic Plasticity, Neocortex, Stimulus Modality

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: John Salamone

Document Summary

Factors important at the acquisition phase: salience of the item to be remembered. More salient items are more easily remembered. Attention plays a role: meaning of the item. More meaningful items are remembered more easily: organization of items. Organization into categories at acquisition facilitates memory. Memory storage: maintenance of information over time, stm. In lab, measured by brown-peterson or peterson & peterson procedure. Memory for nonsense syllables decays over time if repetition is inhibited. It is dependent upon on-going neurochemical and physiological activity in circuits related to the sensory modality that processed the information. Long lasting storage, can be relatively permanent: ltm. Depends upon synaptic plasticity (formation of new synapses) Typically these memories are multimodal (involve information from multiple senses) The information is stored in several locations throughout the brain. Many involve connections between different association areas across the. The same thing going on: generation-recognition hypothesis: