PSYCH 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Temporal Lobe, Interference Theory, Parietal Lobe
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People are more likely to remember words at beginning of a sequence. Better memory for stimuli presented at the end of a sequence. Most recently presented words are still in stm and therefore easy to remember. + in performance from proactive interference: h. m. Stm and ltm are cared for by separate brain regions release from proactive interference. Medial temporal lobe removal intact stm, destroyed ltm. Poor stm but functioning ltm the 3 cases above establishes double dissociation between stm and ltm. Ltm are independent face then 7s delay, then new face, see if new face maches. Hippocampus activity changes slighty for familiar faces. Hippocampus is involved in keeping new info. in memory during short delays role of hippocampus and mediotemporal lobe structures in stm. Stm and ltm are separate but not really separte, especially for tasks involving novel stimuli. Semantic memory factual info. remembering/knowing mental time travel accessing knowledge that we are familiar about ---> tulving.
