PSYC 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Temporal Lobe, Retrograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation
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Memory consolidation- stabilization of memories over time after encoding. Consolidation of declarative memory while awake to reduce forgetting interference studies lecture 14 notes- memory and consolidation. Types of human memory: poor memory for list a if you study list a, then b and then have a delay; good memory if a delay between two lists or no list b at all is given. Because we are unresponsive this may actually be detrimental because it is keeping babies from entering sws. Same consolidation mechanism, just more effective during sleep because less competition. Evidence: sleep, alcohol, and benzodiazepines- will do better on recognition test if time between practice and test is spent sleeping, using alcohol, or benzodiazepines vs being awake. Alcohol and benzodiazepines block ability to encode new info. Consolidation capacity is limited: 3) sleep-specific consolidation- sleep involves a dedicated consolidation mechanism that operates in addition to time-based consolidation.
