Psychology Module 21 Class Date Wednesday October 1 2014 NT Update 1 hour Time taking notes and reading Sunday June 28 2015 Bold UL Grey Link Title Keyword Definition Definition like statement Questions to help you remember http www flashnotes com members spraguemos Psychology Module 21 Retaining Information in the Brain Our memory is not located anywhere but instead saved throughout the brain o Study was done with rats and had them memorize a maze later parts of their brain were removed and they could still navigate through it Explicit Memory System The Frontal Lobes and Hippocampus Frontal Lobes and hippocampus o They record and store effortful processed explicit memories o Have you ever though consciously about remembering information Studied This is explicit memory Frontal Lobes Hippocampus o When you summon up a mental encore of a past experience many brain regions send input to your frontal lobes for working memory processing Left and right frontal lobes work on different memories to your left being more logical and you re right being more arts o This is not a place for permanent memory but instead for vivid ones o The hippocampus and the brain cortex seem to work together in the night to save and store long term memory o A temporal lobe neural center located in the limbic system It is your brains equivalent to a save button Any damage to this part of the brain results in memory loss to explicit memories o Left hippocampus o Right hippocampus More logical examples include language and meanings of words Visual designs and location Have you ever met somebody who thinks street smarts is the only thing they need or even a liberal arts major This is a person with only has a right hippocampus o Different parts serve different functions Some parts are active when we are trying to remember a name to a Another part is active when you engage is spatial mnemonics face Implicit Memory System The Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia This is automatic processing or an implicit memory Even people with memory loss conditions still remember automatic processes Cerebellum Implicit Memory o Without the cerebellum people cannot develop certain conditioned reflexes such as associating a tone with an impending puff of air this was done in rabbits Basal Ganglia o Receives input from the cortex but does not return the favor by sending information back to the cortex for conscious awareness o This is how riding a bike works Do you remember you exact balance every time your ride your bike No this information is only sent one way Infantile amnesia o When you are younger and your brain doesn t develop fully making conscious memory hard to recall The Amygdala Emotions and Memory Emotions often persist without our conscious awareness of what caused them This In stress inducing situations hormones are released that make more glucose that initiates a memory trace in the frontal lobe and basal ganglia and to boost activity in the brain s memory forming areas was done with an experiment with patients that had damage done to their hippocampus but was still showing signs of happiness and sadness from the movies they watched earlier