Memory

Memory

1. Encoding

   • External Events
     • Sensory input
       • Sensory memory
         • Attention to important or novel imformation
           • Working memory

2. Storage

   • Working memory
     • Maintenance rehearsal
       • Long-term memory storage

3. Retrieval

   • Long term memory Storage
     • Working memory

4. Working Memory

   • Auditory rehearsal
     • Central executive
       • Visual-spatial information
       • Long-term memory

5. Two-track Memory System

   • Explicit
     • Become automatic with effort
       • Processed in hippocampus and frontal lobes
         • Personally experienced events
         • Facts and general knowledge
   • Implicit
     • Automatic skills and classically conditioned associations
       • Processed in cerebellum and basal ganglia
         • Space, time, frequency
         • Motor and cognitive skills
         • Classical conditioning

6. Sensory Memory

   • First stage for forming explicit memories
     • Immediate, very brief
       • Iconic memory
         • Echoic memory
           • Sound memory
         • Picture-image memory

7. Long Term Memory

   • Synaptic changes
     • Long-term potentiation
   • Emotion-laden memories
   • Flashbulb memories