Relational Memory: Understanding How We Connect Ideas

In human brains, relational memory research has investigated how we learn that two elements are related, but less so how they are related. Yet we readily know more than just that cats and. The goal of this thesis is to understand how the primate hippocampus could support the formation of relational memories during natural behavior. I first build the tools necessary to describe. In common among the tasks was a demand for relational memory processing, supporting the idea that relational memory is a core component of hippocampal processing that cuts across time.

We based our predictions on a distinction in the verbal. Halford, wilson, andrews and phillips have reinterpreted current conceptions of reasoning and working memory to propose a scheme for integrating the conceptual foundation of psychology. This chapter updates relational memory theory and outlines an information processing syntax that contributes to a broad range of phenomena in declarative memory, including episodic and. Episodic memory is composed of individual elements experienced during an event, including items and the context in which these items occurred, which are bound into a relational.