How Does the Human Brain Store and Retrieve Memories?
Recognition and Recall
Scientific Process
- Recognition is something Previously experienced and compares memory
- Recall remembers a fact that is not physically present
- Recognition has one process unlike Recall has two processes
- Three Methods of Recall
Memory Loss
- Information that first enters the brain, your brain starts encoding
- Encoding is the crucial first step to creating a new memory
- If it is in warm colors you will remember better than black and white pictures
- You won't remember if you don't pay attention
- Cells of the brain depend on proteins and other chemicals to connect and to communcate
- Scientists shown that revoing/changing a chemical or molecule can
- Prevent formation of memories
- Destroy exsting memories
Cited Websites
Free Recall
Theory
- Free Recall is in a list
- Free Recall can be said in any order'
- First listed item is earlier and more often
- www.human-memory.net/processes-recall.html
- Youtube.com
- Google.com
- www.livescience.com/32798-how-are-memories-stored-in-the-brain.html
- Endel Tulving (Left) made an alternative to the two stage theory his theory was named "Theory Of Encoding Specificity"
- Fergus Craik (Right) and Robert Lockhart (No Picture) suggests "levels of processing effect" which has three stages
Cued Recall
Serial Recall
- Cued recall is retrieval with the help of cues. Some cues are semantic.
- They will remeber something they didnt at first
- Serial recall is an aspect of memory relating to the accessing of information retained in a serial learning task.