FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Scott Maitland

Document Summary

Plays an active, critical, and central role in encoding (y), storage (n), and retrieval (y) Older adults, presented with multiple tasks, do poorly compared to younger. Evidence of age related decline in working memory not entirely clear, but there is evidence. Older adults may be able to access info but then have trouble juggling or making sense of it. The ability to remember extensive amounts of information from a few seconds to a few hours these differences relate to performance on more complex complex cognitive tasks. Explicit or declarative memory (deliberate conscious remembering) Implicit or procedural memory (change in performance by exposure to information at some earlier time but not deliberately trying to remember nonconscious memory) One type of explicit memory, may be subdivided into two subsystems: episodic memory. Recalling of information from a specific event or time. Learning and remembering the meaning of words and concepts not tied to specific occurrences of events in time.