PSYC 3365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Karl Lashley, Long-Term Memory, Cerebral Cortex
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If the materialist monism view is correct, all long-term memory must be physically stored somewhere in the brain. Question: is long term memory stored in specific brain location: the engram. Engram = the location of long-term memory in the brain: early approaches to the memory storage question. Ivan pavlov: no connections exist before learning (early 1900s: new connections represented memory storage. Karl lashley tested pavlov"s storage model (1930s-1940s: rats learn complex behavior, knife cuts across cerebral cortex, would behavioral memory be lost, lashley"s knife cuts did not disrupt specific memories, lashley concluded that pavlov was wrong. The engram didn"t seem to exist: proposed distributed processing is the possibility that memories are spread over different brain areas. Do you think that it would be possible to erase a specific memory with special technology: the role of the hippocampus. If distributed processing is correct, them there must be something that coordinates memory storage in different regions.
