PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phineas Gage, Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Anterograde Amnesia
4 Sep 2018
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People with poor metamemory skills tend to be overconfident when it comes to studying for exams. Tip-of-the-tongue state is a form of feeling of knowing. Elaborate & enrich; relate to what you already know. Work on learning skills and metamemory skills. Revealed important role for vpfc in personality. Medial temporal lobes removed to treat epilepsy. Profound anterograde amnesia: no new explicit memories. Could still (cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) thi(cid:374)gs f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e su(cid:396)ge(cid:396)y, (cid:271)ut (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t fo(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:374)e(cid:449) o(cid:374)es. Planning, organization, attentional control, complex goal-directed behavior, self- awareness, flexible response to environment, creative problem solving, personality & social behavior (as with phineas gage) Connection between amygdala and inferotemporal cortex is disrupted. Emotional connection is seen as missing when sufferers see their loved ones. Sufferers have the delusion that their loved ones have been replaced by imposters. Electrical brain activity measured from the scalp following presentation of a stimulus. Assumption: the larger the signal, the more activity in that region.
