PSYC3272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Working Memory, Anatomical Terms Of Location, National Dish
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Baumeister (1998) 3 dimensions: reflexive awareness self-concept, relating to others belongingness, executive function has three main tasks, exerts control over the environment, makes decisions and choices, regulates itself. Main lines of evidence: patients with damage to frontal lobes, neuroimaging. Self-referential effect: remembering traits: which leads to better memory for happy? (rogers et al. 1977: remember words better if phrased in relation to the self, does happy describe you?"" vs does happy mean the same thing as optimistic? . Is the trait presented in uppercase letters: memory best for 1 then 2 then 3 (self-referential effect, fmri showed activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mpfc) ba 10 is important for self- referential effect. Conclusions: ba 10 might be involved for self-referential processing, patients with damage to mpfc have impairments in the ability to self-reflect, introspect and daydream, 2006 showed that mpfc responded only to self-descriptive info. And ventral anterior cingulate resolved the info"s valence (+ or -)
