PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Pomegranate, Recognition Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3330
• Professor: Mark Fenske

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Before brain damage) thus allowing memory problems to be retrieval problems: shown pics of famous people only famous in a particular decade, prefrontal cortex hinders recall even for well learned info. Target memory/trace particular fact idea or experience: ex. What i had for dinner last night is a target. Cues snippets of info that allow you to access a memory: help us retrieve target memories, via associations and links ex. Dog and cat are linked in our minds: can access memories via diff cues ex. ^^^ the following info describes memories as simple single cues but really memory is complex. Memories are collection of features pattern completion process by which spreading activation from set of cues leads to the reinstatement of memory"s features. Saw movie and laughed, when remembering experience and laughing you are reactivating areas of neocortex that perceptually processed original stimuli.