PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter assigned reading: Episodic Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Mental Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3330
• Professor: Mark Fenske

Document Summary

Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain. Memory (especially episodic) is involved in our ability to imagine non-existent events and simulate future happenings. Ingvar: concept about the future, like memories of past events, can be remembered, oten in great detail, regions within the prefrontal cortex have a crucial role in the planning, foresight and programming of complex acion sequences. Tulving: episodic memory allows individuals to engage in mental ime travel into both the past and future. Both episodic memory and future thinking develop late in development (between 3-5 yrs) Korsakof"s amnesia: have marked deiciencies in personal planning. Head injury: k. c. showed a total loss of episodic memory, reported a blank" when asked about his personal future or past. Bilateral hippocampal damage: paients were asked to construct a new imaginary experience, imaginary experiences were reduced in richness, content and especially spaial coherence. They consisted of isolated fragments instead of connected scenes.