PSYC 2060U Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Encoding Specificity Principle, Long-Term Memory, Clive Wearing
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If working memory is what is within reach on your desk, long-term memory is what is stored in the file cabinet in the corner. Explicit memory is conscious memory for facts, figures, events, faces, etc. Episodic memory refers to episodes: so an episodic memory involves being able to actually see yourself in a past situation. Semantic memories are just the facts no visual imagery; no actual seeing yourself there. We talked about three types, all of which you should know well: priming, procedural learning and classical conditioning. Amnesic patients usually show damage to explicit memory, but usually show intact implicit memories. Can also improve on tasks like the mirror tracing task, and can also be classically conditioned: ***remember that this means that explicit and implicit memories likely exist in different brain regions*** So we know the hippocampus is central to memory. But (cid:449)e lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed that it(cid:859)s more complicated than that.
