PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Prefrontal Cortex, Change Blindness, Episodic Memory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Memory: nervous system"s capacity to acquire, retain skills, knowledge, lets us to take info from experiences, store for retrieval later. Altered during recollection, not all equally likely to be remembered. Identity consists of memories, often incomplete, biased, distorted. Memory is processing of info: encoding: processing of info to be stored. Storage: retention of coded representation, corresponds to change in nervous system. Memory is result of brain activity: memory"s physical locations: engram: where memory lives. Size more important than location for retention memory distributed in brain, not confined (equipotentiality). Neurons fire together, wire together, learning leaves biological trails in brain. Specialization: regions in temporal lobes such as hippocampus (spatial memory) important for storing new memories, being able to say what you remember, less important for motor learning, classical conditioning. Cerebellum plays role in how motor actions are learned, remembered. Prefrontal cortex working memory rehearsal; temporal lobe, declarative memory: consolidation: immediate memories become lasting/long-term.