Memory Chapter Summary And Analysis

Memory and learning in this chapter is very captivating. The flow throughout history to show the discoveries and improvements to society’s knowledge improves upon the books readability. Over the years, I have gained knowledge on the subject and that knowledge is supported such as my knowledge on the hippocampus and long-term/ short-term memory. This chapter also offered new insights into ideas I had never heard of before. I was unaware that the left hemisphere of the brain is for language or that at one point a scientist believed that intelligence was related to the amount of forehead protrusion one has. A lot can be taken from reading this. This chapter on memory is a perfect way of talking about memory. The flow over the years and the evolution of how memory works allows the chapter to smoothly transition from paragraph to paragraph. The chapter starts off by recounting the first people to change how people view learning and memory: “the biology of learning and memory was in a muddle…two research scientists changed all that…Brenda …show more content…
That way of thinking is just absurd to me. I enjoy how researchers are able to find that depending on the section of the cerebral cortex that is damaged it will relate to what function of speech is damaged: “people with Wernicke’s aphasia can speak, what they say is completely incoherent…lesion in the left side…back of the brain” (Kandel 122). If the front of the brain is damaged people are unable to speak, but can comprehend. These two findings helped to show that the left hemisphere is for language. This chapter filled me in on a lot of new ideas and findings of memory and learning that I was previously unaware