PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Memory Consolidation, Frontal Lobe, Taxicab

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Psyc 1010: module 25 storing and retrieving memories. Explicit memory system: the frontal lobes and hippocampus. The network that processes and stores your explicit memories for facts and episodes includes your frontal lobes and hippocampus. When you summon up a mental encore of a past experience, many brain regions send input to your frontal lobes for working memory processing (fink et al. , 1996; gabrieli et al. , 1996; markowitsch, 1995). The left and right frontal lobes process different types of memories. Recalling a password and holding it in working memory, for example, would activate the left frontal lobe. Calling up a visual party scene would more likely activate the right frontal lobe. Cognitive neuroscientists have found that the hippocampus, a temporal-lobe-neural center located in the limbic system, is the brain"s equivalent of a save button for explicit memories (figure 25. 1). The hippocampus and nearby brain networks are active as people form explicit memories of names, images, and events (squire &