PSY 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7, 8: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Clive Wearing, Lobectomy
20 Oct 2016
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Episodic memory: www : what, where, and when. Memory allows us to : acquire knowledge, adapt to the world, detect and store novel situations, plan for the future. Many cues are needed- connections to our lives, reading the text, classroom, studying-the more in depth coverage of the material the easier it is to retrieve the info. The testing effect - why we have quizzes, allows for repetition. Evidence for the importance of hippocampal and parahippocampal systems in declarative memory. Every day is alone, whatever enjoyment i"ve had and whatever sorrow i"ve had (hm) Mri images of patient h. m: bilateral anterior lobectomy: Hm: unable to develop new memories for facts or events, rapid forgetting, able to recall information from his past, learn new information. Different types of memory rely on different brain networks. However, one of the few regions to gain cells after birth (20% of cells in the dentate gyrus are added after birth)
