PSYCH 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Explicit Memory, Karl Lashley, Law Of Mass Action
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They can be altered by planting false memories for example. The process of retrieving memory and information can alter the information, known as reconsolidation. This alteration of a memory can occur due to retrieval and reconsolidation under (a) unusual context, and/ or (b) altered state. Karl lashley & his failure of finding the location of memory formation. His failure was to the fact that he searched for the localization of procedural memory in areas, that we now know, are associated with declarative. He coined the ideas of mass action law (the more damage done: the more deficits exhibited) & equipotentiality (the deficits are not localized to a particular area having undergone damage). Declarative memory is linked to the hippocampus within the mtl. Had less severe anterograde amnesia, which actually supports the mass action law (because he technically had less damage and less deficit exhibited).
