Learning & Memory

PSY 511.003

2024-04-04

Prelude

(timvitkuske, 2014)

Last time…

  • Cognition & language

Describe your algorithm for getting up in the morning.

Why are algorithms and cognition inextricably intertwined?

Can there be cognition without language? Why or why not?

Why is it hard to localize cognition or language in the brain?

Main

Today’s topics

What is learning?

What is memory?

Main points

  • Learning not a unitary phenomenon
    • Non-associative vs. associative
    • That vs. how
  • Biological bases of learning
    • Changes in network connectivity & dynamics
    • Changes within cells
    • ~ machine or deep learning in CS/AI
  • Memory not a unitary phenomenon
    • What behaviors/computations, how expressed
    • Multiple brain systems
    • That (who/what/when/where/why) vs. how
    • Unlike computer memory

Next time…

  • Disorder & disease I

Resources

References

PSY 511 Spr 2024

timvitkuske. (2014, May). Betty buckley - memory (1983 tony awards). Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mlllRdIfqw