PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory, Temporal Lobe, Sensory Memory
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Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable stills and knowledge. H. m. suffered from severe epilepsy (seizures are uncontrolled random firings of groups of neurons; can spread across the brain) originating in temporal lobes; doctors removed parts of medial temporal lobes, including hippocampus. Lost ability to form new long-term memories, but was able to learn new motor tasks. We automatically identify primitive features (color, shape, orientation and movement) within environment. Parallel processing: allows us to process information from different visual features at the same time by focusing on targets over distracters (e. g. a red object in the midst of black objects) In visual/feature search tasks studies, ppl look at display of diff objects on screen and search for targets which differ from the others in only one feature. Features like color, size, motion, orientation pop out when targets differ from distracters.
