Storage

Storage 

Iconic memory

- a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, a photograph like quality lasting only about a second 

Echoic memory 

- the auditory stimuli 

Storage and short term memory 

- last usually between 3-12 seconds 

- 7 digits 

Long term potential ion 

- long lasting enhancement in signal transmitting between two neurons that results from stimulation them synchronously

-in other words they learn to fire together and get better at it creating a 

Hippocampus 

-damage to the hippocampus disrupt our memory 

-left, verbal

-right, visual and sorting 

Proactive interference 

- the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information 

Retroactive interference 

-the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information