PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Retrograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation
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January 24, 2017: chapter 9: forgetting, why do we forget, consolidation theory memory is solidified gradually after the encoding event. Jenkins & dallenback (1924) effects of sleep on recall. *sleep slowed forgetting: much more forgetting if subjects were made to stay awake, reason why sleep: to consolidate the important parts of the day for your memory ; remind yourself to slowly forget information, consolidation process. If we forget, it"s because we did not have time to consolidate memories/information. Squire (1984) temporally graded retrograde amnesia memory loss for events just prior to the lesion: systems consolidation the hippocampus is initially involved in memory storage, but. *info encoded more than 3 years prior to the lesion was not forgotten memories are transferred to the cortex over time. Interference theory older memories are more difficult to retrieve because there is more competition from other memories: once good representation for a memory is made, it remains in memory.
