PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Radial Arm Maze, Retrograde Amnesia, Morris Water Navigation Task
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Learning how to move your body in a certain way, to get something nice, or learn to avoid certain movements that get you something bad. Encoding: getting the info into your brain, by translating it into a neural code by the brain can understand. Analogous to typing on your keyboard; keystrokes are converted into electrical signals, that the computer can understand. Saving your text on the hard drive. Retrieval: the active processes of locating, and using stored information. Opening your text from the hard drive. Three main points to understand, about the neural basis of memory. Different types of memory are regulated by distinct brain regions. One type of memory, is regulated by interactions between multiple brain regions. One way to distinguish between the different types of memory, is to look at how long. Short-term memory: info held for short periods while physiological changes needed for long-term memory are being made. There is a limited capacity (7 +/- 2 items)
