PSYC10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wilder Penfield, Donald O. Hebb, Visual Cortex
21 Jan 2017
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What you consciously experience is a reconstruction of what happened. After encoding, memory continues to change and evolve, dynamic & fragile changes are either beneficial or deleterious. During periods of consolidation memories become more permanent, but also alter in content. It takes time for a memory to become enduring. There is a prolonged process of consolidation during which memory is stored. Immediately after encoding memory is fragile amnesia can be induced, but this only occurs in a specific length of time. It takes a prolonged period for memory to be built. As time progressed and the person was awake (during which the person engaged in various tasks), ability to recognise/remember the scenes declined. Suggests that sleep is a significant stage during which memories are developed and strengthened. Memory building occurs after a while of encoding, esp. during sleep. Only emotional info. is retained and consolidated in memory during sleep. Sleep has no beneficial effect on remembering neutral objects.
