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Overview
Overview
Information first enters the memory through the senses. We register visual images via iconic memory and sound via echoic memory. Although our memory for information just presented is limited to about seven items, our capacity for storing information permanently is essentially unlimited.
The search for the physical basis of memory has focused on the synapses and their neurotransmitters and on brain circuits. The hippocampus processes explicit (declarative) memories, the cerebellum and basal ganglia process implicit (nondeclarative) memories, and the amygdala plays a role in emotion-related memory formation.
Readings
Module 32, Storing and Retrieving Memories, pages 339-349.
Learning Targets
32-1 Discuss the capacity of and location of our long-term memories.
32-2 Describe the roles of the frontal lobes and hippocampus in memory processing.
32-3 Describe the roles of the cerebellum and basal ganglia in memory processing.
32-4 Discuss how emotions affect our memory processing.
32-5 Explain how changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing.
32-6 Analyze how external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval.
Class Materials
MD32 Storing & Retrieving Memories.pdfMemory Processing blank.pdfVideo Resources
Crash Course #13
Crash Course #13
CC13: How We Make Memories
Fun Extras
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