CAS PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Iconic Memory, Temporal Lobe, Memory Span

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ira Wells

Document Summary

Memory nervous system"s capacity to retain and retrieve skills and knowledge. Take info from experiences and store it for retrieval later. Memory can be distorted by the process of recollection. Information processing model is analogous to the ways computers process info. Brain changes info into a neural code that it can use. A change in your nervous system registers what you just experienced, retaining it as a memorable event. Retrieval reaching into memory storage to find and bring to mind previously encoded info when it is needed equipotentiality memory is distributed throughout the brain rather than confined to any specific location. *memory results from physical changes in connections between neurons. Ltp strengthening of a synaptic connection, making the postsynaptic neuron more easily activated. ~if ltp has occurred, the intense electrical stimulation of one neuron will increase the liklihood that stimulating the first neuron will lead to increased firing in the second neuron.