Ok, so I do psych', psych!
There are various sorts of memories, such as conditioned responses, neural networks are types of stored "memorised" cognition, and then in terms of learning information, recalling events, which is your interest - long and short term memory and memory distortion.
You're right to include perception in this because how you "see" something shapes how that information will be stored. Thus, you can form impressions quickly enough to say "That's good", often this sort of memory is ill advised but you go with it until that impression is challenged.
In the frontal lobes in the brain, generally functioning for cognition, are the orbital cortex. The hippocampus communicates with the orbital cortex, usu' right frontal, and is responsible for converting short term memory to long term through endocrine secretion.
There is a very interesting body of info on glucocorticoids here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucocorticoid which are responsible for removing memory functionality. The protein within this secretion blocks overly stressful emotions from conscious experience, and through exposure, the hippocampi in the given hemisphere shrinks. In fact this is a biological defense mechanism for reducing stress, only it can hinder normal memory from being accessed. Fortunately though, the entire process can be reversed, thus hippocampi can regrow, etc.
Also where you mention distorted memories, in the case of them originally being stored differently to the way they've been retrieved, there are a variety of causes for this. It has been said, the most common would be the interference of a memory when accessing it, sometimes separate memories combine into a single one either through association, and by the long term memory failing to store 'all' of the memory so that only 'impression' size portion can be recalled.
There are various sorts of memories, such as conditioned responses, neural networks are types of stored "memorised" cognition, and then in terms of learning information, recalling events, which is your interest - long and short term memory and memory distortion.
You're right to include perception in this because how you "see" something shapes how that information will be stored. Thus, you can form impressions quickly enough to say "That's good", often this sort of memory is ill advised but you go with it until that impression is challenged.
In the frontal lobes in the brain, generally functioning for cognition, are the orbital cortex. The hippocampus communicates with the orbital cortex, usu' right frontal, and is responsible for converting short term memory to long term through endocrine secretion.
There is a very interesting body of info on glucocorticoids here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucocorticoid which are responsible for removing memory functionality. The protein within this secretion blocks overly stressful emotions from conscious experience, and through exposure, the hippocampi in the given hemisphere shrinks. In fact this is a biological defense mechanism for reducing stress, only it can hinder normal memory from being accessed. Fortunately though, the entire process can be reversed, thus hippocampi can regrow, etc.
Also where you mention distorted memories, in the case of them originally being stored differently to the way they've been retrieved, there are a variety of causes for this. It has been said, the most common would be the interference of a memory when accessing it, sometimes separate memories combine into a single one either through association, and by the long term memory failing to store 'all' of the memory so that only 'impression' size portion can be recalled.
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