Chapter 6, Memory - Brain areas

Semantic encoding

lower left part of frontal lobe + inner left temporal lobe

visual imagery encoding

visual processing regions in occipital lobe

organisational encoding

upper surface of left frontal lobe

LTM

specific places in cortex (hippocampal region serves as an “index”)

anterograde amnesia

damage to hippocampus

fear memories

amygdala

trying to retrieve information

left frontal lobe

retrieving information

hippocampal region + specific sensory cortex

implicit memories

don’t require hippocampal reg

priming

less time spent processing, less activity in specific regions

semantic memories

hippocampus not necessary

SDAM → episodic memory

right hippocampus

episodic memory - imagination

core network, incl. hippocampus

dividing attention

less activity in lower left frontal lobe, less hippocampal activity

blocking

damage to left temporal lobe on cortex surface

memory misattribution

frontal lobes

false/true recognition

incl. hippocampus

persistence

amygdala