PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Episodic Memory
Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
Section 8.1:
• Construction:
o the process by which memories are formed
o based on what actually happened combined with other things that have
happened and our general knowledge
• Additional characteristics of Autobiographical Memory:
o 1. Multidimensional
o 2. Remember some events better than others
• The Multidimensional Nature of AM:
o Autobiographical memories are multidimensional because they consist of
spatial, emotional, and sensory components
▪ Greenberg and Rubin found that patients who had lost their ability to
recognize objects or to visualize objects because of damage to visual
areas of the cortex also experienced a loss of AM
• Shows that visual experience plays an important role in AM
o There is a difference between AM and laboratory memory
▪ experiment by Cabeza in which he measured brain activation caused by
two sets of photos, one taken by the subject and one taken by another
person (lab photos)
▪ Measured brain activation using fMRI as participants indicated whether it
was their own photo, a lab photo, or one they had never seen
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