Autobiographical memory Flashcards
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Autobiographical memory
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Retrieval of an event from both semantic and episodic components.
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Retrieval in autobiographical memories
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single memory involves retrieval from many different storage locations, from there memory is constructed into a while and anything ‘missing’ is filled in using semantic memories.
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Hippocampus in Autobiographical Memory
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The hippocampus has the role of retrieving episodic memories due to them not being used as much as semantic therefore not stored in the neocortex.
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The neocortex in Autobiographical memory
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The frontal lobe and temporal lobe are involved in the retrieval of semantic memories, due to being used more they are stored in the neocortex
