memory
The active process of retrieval of something learned
Different types of memory appear to be…
…. mediated by different areas of the brain
Spatial - Hippocampus:
Recall of specific locations, spatial judgments of familiarity
Motor Skill, How to do it (peck a target, ride a bike)
Declarative - Hippocampus & Mediodorsal Thalamus:
Episodic (personal history), Semantic/Associative (facts)
damage to Fusiforme Gyrus
(of IT Cortex) =
Memory for familiar faces disrupted = Prosopagnosia
damage to Dorsal Temporal Cortex
For well-learned words, voices disrupted by