Other models of Memory and the Brain Other

Other models of Memory and the Brain

Other models of Memory • Semantic Memoryour knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meaning. • Episodic Memoryour memory of our own life

Other models of Memory • Declarative (explicit) • Procedural (implicit) memory- involves memory- does not both semantic and require conscious episodic memory. recollection to have past learning or • The knowledge you experiences impact call forth consciously and use as you need it. our performance. • Skills- swimming, • Names, events, driving a car, riding a people bike

Priming (another form of procedural memory) • Suppose you are shown a list of words: • Assassin, barrel, monkey • Later we give you clues: • _ ss_ _ s s _ _, • Barr_ _ • Mo _ _ ey • You will be able to recognize these words with greater accuracy and speed than someone who has not seen the list

Memory and the Brain • Where does learning occur? • Formation of procedural memories involves activity in the area of the brain called the striatum, deep in the front part of our cortex. • Declarative memory result from activity in the hippocampus and the amygdala

Memory and the brain

Neurons (individual nerve cells) • Neurons establish connections with one another when learning occurs

The Central Nervous System • CNS- the brain and the spinal cord • The nervous system and the endocrine system send information to and from the brain

Peripheral Nervous System • Two networks of nerves branching out from the spinal cord that conduct information from the bodily organs to the central nervous system and takes information back to the organs

Autonomic Nervous System • Part of the peripheral nervous system that controls internal biological functions such as the heart rate and digestion