Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Eric Kandel, Wilder Penfield, Long-Term Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Karl lashley was looking for the physical memory trace (engram), but was never able to find it concluded that memories are stored throughout the brain. On the other hand, when doing awake brain surgery wilder penfield found that stimulation of certain brain areas triggered patients" memories however, this was reported as probably inaccurate since these instances were rare. As working memory becomes more involved in different types of tasks, cortical networks located in. Multiple brain areas are involved in forming and storing long-term memories, but the hippocampus and its adjacent areas seem to play important roles in encoding certain types of long-term memories. One possible way that memories form is through synaptic changes. A different line of research, involving species with more complex nervous systems (ex mice), also supports the hypothesis that synaptic changes may be the basis for memory consolidation. Administering drugs that inhibit reactions inside and between neurons will block ltp.