6. Memory Systems

Question 1

BEFORE THE TEXTBOOK:

Semantic, episodic, procedural

Answer 1

Semantic memory are facts that exist independently of events.
Episodic memory is memory of events.
Procedural is.. muscle memory? More implicit than others.

Question 2

BEFORE THE TEXTBOOK:

Noetic, autonoetic, anoetic

Answer 2

Firstly, “noetic” means “knowing we know”. This is in the context of implicit vs explicit knowledge: things we can say we know, and things we know but don’t know how to say.

Noetic is semantic memory. Not only do we know, we can tell others what we know.

Anoetic means “not knowing”. This is procedural memory. We know how to ride a bike, but it’s hella hard explaining it to someone else. (We do approximate this, don’t we? Look at sports coaches.)

Autonoetic means “self-knowing”.
This is then episodic memory.

Question 3

BEGINNING HALFWAY: Working Memory

Answer 3

The resources we have at our disposal to solve problems in real life! It consists of one coordinator and three systems: the central executive, the visuo-spatial sketchpad, the phonological loop, and the short-term episodic buffer.

Question 4

Central Executive
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
Phonological Loop
Episodic Buffer

Answer 4

Bad-ass!!
Baddeley’s theory. Many years of work.

The Central Executive branch coordinates information coming in from the three subsystems.

The visuo-spatial sketchpad and phonological loop are short-term stores of visual and aural information respectively.

The episodic buffer’s responsible for moving things between long-term memory and episodic memory.

Question 5

DLPFC

Answer 5

Dorsolateral prefontal cortex.
A special area in the brain, responsible for coordinating information flow!

We’ve also seen this before in the Attention chapter, where there’ve been hints that the DLPFC is responsible for direction our attention.