Neorobiological Basis of Memory Introduction Memory is a complicated co

The psychology of memory has its focus on meaning and interpretation, even more than on the details of a particular event. Edmund Bolles (1988) provides one of the more intriguing accounts of memory in his discussion of the psychology of memory by noting from the beginning that memory, or remembering, is primarily an act of imagination. Rather than consider memory as a mechanical act involving either a storage or a computer metaphor in which information is placed within the brain and presumably retrieved from it intact, he has focused on the way in which memory is constructed of emotion, fact, interpretation, and art. For him, memory is more an act of construction than an act of retrieval from storage.

On the other hand, biology, or neurobiology, has its focus on the way in which memory is constructed, the neurobiology of both the past and present event, the mechanisms of both storage and retrieval events. Increasingly the latter has emphasized information processing concepts in relationship to the understanding of memory.

This section of the study examines some of the more recent literature on memory, with an emphasis on understanding how it is presently conceptualized with a neurobiological basis.

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memories stored in different areas of the brain (Squire, 1987). Finally, the third category involves processing approaches, similar to those described by Hilts (1993) above. These processing approaches focus on the fact that implicit and explicit tests require different kinds of information from the memory. Thus, it is not necessary to postulate two different kinds of memory systems, but simply explore the types of information required within the tests themselves. For researchers using this perspective, the focus is not on the type of test or memory task, but upon whether the information required is conceptuallydriven or datadriven. Thus, the explicit memory tests tend to be conceptuallydriven, but are not necessarily so. Theoretically there could be an implicit memory test that was conceptuallydriven and the researchers predict that this would show less impairment for amnesic populations. However, despite considerable research on the subject (some that supports the distinction between conceptuallydriven and datadriven memory tasks), Shimamura (1986) noted that amnesiacs, at least, perform equally well on implicit memory tests that are either conceptuallydriven or datadriven. Thus, it is the implicitexplicit d
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