PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Frontal Lobe, Basal Ganglia, Implicit Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Despites brain"s vast storage capacity, we do not store information in specific locations. Many parts of the brain interact as we encode, store and retrieve information that forms memories. Frontal lobe and hippocampus process and store explicit memories (memory of fact and experiences that one can consciously know and declare . Summon up mental encore of past experience, brain regions send input to frontal lobes for working memory processing. Left and right frontal loves process different types of memories. Hippocampus (a neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage) equivalent to save button. Left hippocampus damage, people have trouble remembering verbal information. Right hippocampus damage, people have trouble recalling visual designs and locations. Part active as people learn to associate names with faces. Part active as memory champions engage in spatial mnemonics. Explicit memories for facts and episodes are processed in the hippocampus and then fd to other brain regions for storage.