PSC 1 Chapter Notes -Temporal Lobe, Spatial Memory, Explicit Memory
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Henry molaison ( hm, 1926-2008: what happens if you remove brain regions vital to memory, he had short term memory. What is memory: memory: the nervous system"s capacity ti acquire and retain skills and knowledge, memory as a library , not memory as a video recorder , memory is a reconstructive process, memory as a jigsaw puzzle . 2) storage- information is stored in the brain just as it is stored on a computer"s hard drive. 3) retrieval- information is retrieved when it is needed just as it shows up on-screen so it can be viewed. Types of attention visual attention auditory attention selective attention filtering. Visual attention: we automatically identify primitive features of visual objects using separate systems (primitive features are things like color, size, parallel processing: processing multiple types of information at once, serial processing: processing occurs one system at a time.
