PSYC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6D: Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Dementia
23 Jan 2018
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He thought that memories were localized, in the sense that particular memories were stored in a specific brain area. He had rats run through a maze and after they did, he would re(cid:373)o(cid:448)e a ti(cid:374)y part of the rat"s (cid:271)rai(cid:374) to see if that would affect their memory. The rat would be allowed to run the maze again afterwards. No matter what part he removed, the rat finished the maze. He then concluded that memories were actually distributed or stored throughout the brain: he was somewhat right; some memories do seem to be localized at specific spots in the brain. Interrelated memories: involving information from multiple senses: richard f. thompson: experimented on rabbits. He taught rabbits to blink in response to the sound of a specific tone and a puff of air administered to the ra(cid:271)(cid:271)it"s eye. In his experiment, he squirted the snail with waterpik and then shocked its tail.
