PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Prefrontal Cortex, Encoding Specificity Principle, Episodic Memory
31 Mar 2016
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Retrieval: tip of the tongue situation, feeling that you know something is a good indicator that you do. Damage to prefrontal cortex hinders recall even for very well learned information from across our lifespans. Successful access often relies upon retrieval mechanisms that help to isolate traces in memory, a function strongly reliant on cognitive control processes mediated by the prefrontal cortex. Memories can be retrieved from a variety of cues: memories are flexible: any aspect of content of a memory can serve as a reminder that could access the experience content addressable memory. Retrieval is less effective if cues are present but not attended to or not attended to enough. Retrieval quite often can proceed with less attention, compared to encoding, especially when the cues guiding search are more specific and complete. Full attention required if more accurate and complete recall is priority. Having cues does little good if they are unrelated to the target.
