PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Dentate Gyrus, Implicit Memory
4 Apr 2016
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University students usually compared to other life stages. How can you reliably tell if an infant remembers or not: can"t use verbal instrucions. Also hard to establish whether infants are consciously aware of their memories: i. e. are they declaraive or implicit. Implicit, non-declaraive, procedural memory well-developed at birth: preferences for voices heard in womb, mnemonic abiliies ater birth: Sucking on paciier acivated a voice recording of: infant"s mother, stranger. More sucking when linked to mother"s voice. Newborns remember mother"s voice and a novel acion that results in. Declaraive (explicit) memory development rewarding sound of her voice: declaraive memory abiliies develop later than implicit memory, originally, infants assumed to be devoid of explicit memory. View has changed with recent data: declaraive memory is now assumed in those far younger than once thought, mobile conjugate reinforcement paradigm. Guiding principle: avoid underesimaing baby"s memory by using what interests them.
