NSCI 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31: Short-Term Memory, Explicit Memory, Long-Term Memory
8 May 2016
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This is one of the possible organization diagrams of the memory systems we have in our brains. Rats have roughly equivalent memory systems, however not great at declaring". Nondeclarative hard to explain. (e. g. , motor: how to ride a bike. These two memory systems divided quite differently in locations in the brain subserving same purpose. We have different memory subsystems, each has a different capacity, but all feeding to each other. Immediate memory representation of current motion, lasts for a transient period of time. Forgetting and remembering are active processes, ltered according to importance. Some sensory experience is prioritised to working memory where our conscious representation of the world is. This is short-term memory, where we can integrate new memories and access old ones. Information stored in long-term memory is actually largely made-up, based on longer-term changes in relative synaptic weights. Another memory subsystem phylogenetic memory is a very evolved form.
