Chapter 8 Flashcards
Frontal lobe
Storage, processing, and encoding of procedural memories and Memory for language and motor-skills tasks
Parietal lobe
Spatial memory (awareness of oneself in space)
Occipital lobe
Memory for pictures
Temporal lobe
Memory for sound and the names of colors
Hippocampus
Forming explicit memory - Consolidating and retrieving long-term declarative memories
Amygdala
Forms of long-term implicit memory, including emotional memories such as recognizing emotions in faces - Procedural memories such as skill learning and classical conditioning
Cerebellum
Encoding, processing, and storing of procedural memories - Classically conditioned responses (a form of implicit memory) - Memory for motor-skills tasks
Basal ganglia
Long-term procedural memory - Movement
The role of the Hippocampus in memory
The hippocampus helps to create the context of a memory e.g. the location and situation. Declarative memories are not held in the hippocampus but are transferred to the cerebral cortex where they become more permanent
role of the cerebellum in memory
The cerebellum helps people to memorise how to perform motor skills.
