PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Retrograde Amnesia, Amygdala, Anterograde Amnesia
6 Dec 2014
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Chapter 6: memory ability to store & retrieve info over time. Retrieval process of transforming what we perceive, think, feel into enduring memory process of maintaining info in memory over time process of bringing to mind info that has been previously encoded & stored. Made by combining info we already have in our brains with new info that comes in thru our senses. Process by which we transform what we perceive, think, feel into enduring memory. Aka: how we remember something depends on how we think about it at that time uniquely associated with increased activity in lower left part of frontal lobe & inner part of left temporal lobe. Amount of activity in each of these two regions during encoding is directly related to whether people later remember an item. Mental one activates visual procession regions in occipital lobe, suggests that people actually enlist visual system when forming memories based on mental images.
