PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Basal Ganglia, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory
11 Dec 2013
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Our capacity for storing long-term memories is essentially limitless. Our brains are not like attics, which once filed can store more items only if we discard old ones. Despite our brain"s vast storage capacity, we do not store information as libraries store their books, in discrete, precise locations. Instead many, parts of the brain interact as we encode, store, and retrieve the information that forms our memories. The network that processes and stores explicit memories (memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare) includes frontal lobes and hippocampus. When you summon up a mental encore of a past experience, many brain regions send input to your frontal lobes for working memory processing. Left and right frontal lobes process different types of memories. Recalling a password=left; recalling visual party scene=right. Explicit memories for facts and episodes are processed in the hippocampus and fed to other brain regions for storage.
