PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Amygdala, Basal Ganglia, Childhood Amnesia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Module 24: storage retaining information in the brain. Despite the 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. As with perception, language, emotion, and much more, memory requires brain networks. The network that processes and stores your explicit memories includes your frontal lobes and hippocampus: explicit memory memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and (cid:498)declare(cid:499) (also called declarative memory) When you summon up a mental encore of past experience, many brain regions send input to your frontal lobes for working memory processing. With left-hippocampus damage, people have trouble remembering verbal information, but they have no trouble recalling visual designs and locations. With right-hippocampus damage, the problem is reversed: sub-regions of the hippocampus also serve different functions.