Sensation
Perception
Context
- Memory
- Emotion
Memories
Memories define who we are
Memory and identity are tightly connected
Memories are recollected or rather, reconstructed
Memories and emotions are linked
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Experimental psychology 1880s
Torturous Memory Experiments on himself
Discovered the Ebbinghaus size illusion
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
- Memories have different lifespans
- Repetition makes memories last longer - practice makes perfect
Revolutions
- Genetic revolution
- Behavioral revolution
- Cognitive revolution
Genetic Revolution - DNA
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
Central Dogma of Biology
DNA → transcription → RNA → translation → Protein
Behaviorist Revolution
Ivan Pavlov’s dog experiments
Classical conditioning
John Watson - Blank slate, tabula rasa
Cognitive Revolution
Frederic C. Bartlett
Karl S. Lashley - n grams
Morris water maze - showed that memory formation is localized in the hippocampus
Henry Molaison - had his hippocampus removed and could not form new long-term memories
Hippocampus
Critical part of the brain where memories are stored
Memory tree
- Short Term Memory
- Long Term Memory
- Explicit (Conscious)
- Episodic (Events that haven’t happened yet)
- Semantic (General knowledge of the world)
- Implicit (unconscious)
- Priming
- Procedural (motor)
Marc Chagall
Layers of painting
- What is the artist trying to do?
- What do we know about Marc Chagall as a painter?
Gerhard Richter
Joseph Cornell