ELECTRN 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Clinical Psychology, Larry Squire, List Of Internet Phenomena
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Some facts about memory: our personal memories are susceptible to distortion, memory distortion has been demonstrated in many studies. In most of these studies participants were given misleading information. Jelicic (2006): 63% of group of students said they saw an amateur film of the pim fortuyn assassination even though no footage of that exists, 23% were even able to give details about film. Neuropsychology of memory: both patient studies and neuroimaging research have shown that specific brain areas, most notably the hippocampus, thalamus and the frontal lobes, play a major role in memory storage and retrieval. Research on hm revealed that: hippocampus is involved in learning of new information, hippocampus is not vital for remembering events that occurred some time prior to brain damage, hippocampus does not play a role in non-conscious memory. Example of retrograde amnesia: during soccer match english vs netherlands, dutch striker klaas jan.
