PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sensory Memory, Temporal Lobe, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

Document Summary

Encoding: the transformation of information from one form/code to another (neural code, code can be sound pattern, letter sequence, image, and tactile cue, paying attention to incoming information. Storage: the rentention of encoded information over time, has to be a memory trace, can last from fractions of a second (sensory memory) to several seconds (short-term and working memory) to indefinitely (long-term memory) Retrieval: recovery of stored information when it is needed, recall, recognition, two common causes for retrieval failure: Store model: sensory memory: holds large amounts of incoming information for a very short period of time. Iconic stores visual information: lasts fractions of a second, echoic stores auditory information, lasts about 2 seconds. Store model: short-term memory: short-term memory, how is information represented, mental representations/memory codes, various forms. Increasing short-term memory: chunking, combining individual items into larger units of meaning, chu(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g is (cid:373)ost effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:272)hu(cid:374)k, extending duration.