PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
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Information outside spotlight of attention is not transferred into stm: change blindness. Information is organized as: semantic categories that the items belong to; semantically related items are stored near each other in ltm, based on the sounds of the word and how they word looks. Involves physical change to synapse so that presynaptic cell is more likely to stimulate a specific postsynaptic cell (cells) Without consolidation, initial changes to synapse would fade away and so does the memory. Due to problems with sensory memory or stm. Due to problems with one of the controls processes associated with those stores. Cannot transfer declarative memories from stm to ltm. Missing medial temporal lobes of both hemispheres = region of brain involved with consolidating memories, enabling information from stm to enter and remain in ltm: hippocampus critical for the process of consolidation. Maintains ltp networks until the acquired behaviour can form more connections throughout the brain.
