MEMORY

MEMORY

1. processes

   • encoding (creation)
   • consolidation (stabilisation
   • storage (persistence)
   • retrieval (recovery of the traces)

2. K.F.

3. H.M.

   • medial portions of temporal lobes removed (most hippocampus, amygdala, adjacent cortex)
   • digit span test - inability to form new LT memories
   • block tapping memory test - could not learn to correctly touch a sequence with many repetition (global amnesia)
   • mirror drawing test - performance was improving but did not remember doing the task itself
   • rotary pursuit test - similarly to Mirror drawing test
   • Incomplete pictures test

4. Modal Model of Memory - Atkinson & Shifinn (1968)