PSY 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: General Idea, Brainstem, Striatum
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Physical location of memory: allocentric encoding- encodes info about location of one object or its parts with respect to other objects. The location of one object is defined relative to its location of other objects. Egocentric encoding- represents the location of objects in space relative to the body axes of the self (left-right, front-back, up-down. ) More evidence for role in allocentric special learning: (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept(cid:863) (cid:272)ells- respond to semantic components of episodic memory (cid:862)je(cid:374)(cid:374)ifer a(cid:374)(cid:374)isto(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:272)ells . Work with patients who had brain issues where they were going to do surgical removing of something. Can get consent to do recording of surgery. Recording of neurons from multiple areas of cortex including areas of hippocampus. One patient, show a bunch of images, some of people, some famous some family some random. For one person, jennifer anniston images stimulated activity of hippocampal cells. For that person unique connection between image and activation of a cell.
