PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Morris Water Navigation Task, White Noise, Procedural Memory
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Scuba divers learning a list of words either underwater or on land (and then recalling the words either underwater or on land) Learning a list of words with instrumental background music or white noise (and then recalling the words while the same instrumental music or white noise played) Revisiting a childhood home or school can bring back a flood of memories. Mentally visualizing the encoding environment can also work. Stress can interfere with context dependent memory. Memories are stored in multiple regions of the brain and linked through memory circuits. Different memory systems use different brain regions. Hippocampus: particularly important for spatial memory memory for the physical environment (location of objects, direction, cognitive maps: rats and the morris water maze. Frontal lobes: crucial for encoding, and involved in many aspects of memory: e. g. , working memory. Amygdala: memory of emotional events: e. g. , people who were in downtown manhattan on 9/11. Cerebellum: procedural memory: e. g. , motor learning, eyeblink conditioning.
