PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Implicit Memory, Episodic Memory, Frederic Bartlett
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Memory: the capacity to retain and retrieve information, and also the structures that account fot this capacity. Memory endows us with a sense of personal identity; each of us is a sum of our recollections. Memory gives us our past and guides our future. Dementia: illness unable to form new memories. At 27, surgeons removed most of his hippocampus to alleviate his severe and life- threatening epilepsy which was causing seizures. He continued to recall events that happened before the operation, but new memories would only be remembered for 15 minutes. He always thought he was much younger than he really was & was unable to recognize a photograph of his own face. People see memory as a video camera; this is wrong not everything that happens to us or impinges on our senses is tucked away for later use; memory is selective.
