PSYC 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Classical Conditioning, Taxicab, Limbic System
22 Dec 2016
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Our capacity for storing long-term memories is essentially limitless. Brain is not like an attic that has a limit to storage. Thus despite brain"s vast storage capacity, we do not store info as libraries store books, in discrete, precise locations. Instead, many parts of brain interact as we encode, store and retrieve info: explains why rats could at least partially find way out of maze when cortex bits were removed. Explicit-memory system: the frontal lobes and hippocampus. Network that processes and stores explicit memories: frontal lobes and hippocampus: when you summon up mental encore of a past experience, many brain regions send input to frontal lobes for working memory processing. Left and right lobes process different kinds of memories. Left: recalling a password and holding it in working memory. Hippocampus: a neural center located in limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage.
