PSY 3120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Sketchpad, Fokker E.Ii, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY 3120
• Professor: Woodman Geoffrey

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Anterograde amnesia: condition that prevents him from forming new memories. As attention is drawn to something else, he forgets what has just happened. Introduction: neural plasticity: provides the basis for memory. Temporal cortex: hippocampus is the storage of new memories a. ii. Prefrontal cortex: encoding new memories and retrieving old memories: study of verbal material is the left hemisphere; pictorial: right/both b. i. Left: pictorial material that is linked to verbal knowledge (pictures of people/objects) Human memory depends heavily on frontal structures of the brain for the creation and retrieval of memories and on temporal structures for the permanent storage of these memories. Visual sensory memory: reports of visual recall of images shown and individuals are aware of more but they faded, partial-report procedure: cues of different tones for different rows of letters b. i. Particularly visual in character bright postexposure washes out memory for the display d. ii.