PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Slow-Wave Sleep, Autobiographical Memory, Memory Consolidation
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Memory and sleep: sleep supports the consolidation of memory in all major memory systems, consolidation of memory during sleep can produce a strengthening of associations as. 60% correctness, then went to sleep: cycles are monitored for non-rem stages 1 - 4 (sws), and then. Ps slept in an fmri machine: discovered that the hippocampus was indeed activated, particular sensitivity of hippocampal networks during slow wave sleep (sws) to stimuli that are capable of reactivation. Autobiographical memory: what has happened in my life: autobiographical memory: memory for specific events from a person"s life, which can include both episodic and semantic components. 3: even applies to prospective memory, bohn and berntsen (2010) asked children to write their future life stories most stories were life script events that showed a clear bump in young adulthood. Memory for exceptional events: some events in a person"s life are more likely to be remembered than others, most memorable events are significant, important and associated with emotions.
