Long Term Memory
- Created by: Abby O'Connor
- Created on: 14-01-13 21:27
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- What is long term memory and why do we have it?
- Evolved to allow organisms to cope with complex environments
- Strong interactions with short term memories
- Long term memory: declarative (explicit) and non declarative (implicit)
- Non declarative (implicit) - skills and habits, emotional responses, priming
- Declarative (explicit) - semantic facts and episodic events which can be consciously recalled.
- Encoding memories for events: processes by which information is transformed into a memory respresentation.
- Attention, Elaboration, Generation and Spacing, Binding
- Consolidating memories for events: depends upon the hippocampus. Binding of individual impressions into episodes through rehearsal.
- No more consolidation of memories = amnesia
- Two different types of amnesia - retrograde (loss of old memories) and anterograde amnesia (inability to form new memories)
- The story of H.M - epileptic patient which underwent bilaterial medial temporal lobe resection in order to control seizures and suffered…
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