PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Temporal Lobe, Sensory Memory, Echoic Memory
11 Dec 2018
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Memory: the ability to store and retrieve information over time. Encoding: the process of transforming (changing) what think, see, perceive, or feel into an enduring memory: 2. Storage: the process of maintaining information in our memory over time: 3. Retrieval: process of bringing back information from our memory to our minds that was previously encoded. Survival encoding: our ancestors survived by encoding. Three kinds of memory storage: (each one holds a memory for a di erent amount of time: sensory, short-term, long-term: Sensory storage: sensory memory: a type of storage that holds sensory information for a few seconds or less. Hippocampal region > hm (surgical removal) (anterograde amnesia) Anterograde amnesia: when the hippocampal region is damaged: the inanelity to transfer information from short term storage to long term storage. Retrograde amnesia: inability to retrieve information that was acquired before a certain date usually the day of trauma (surgery, accident)
