Memory a. Brief storage of information. May be held for longer time by rehersal. Without rehearsal information quickly lost. Limited as to the number of stimuli that may be retained here. Consolidation a. Stimuli that have an effect on the limbic system result in it registering its significance and initiating the command to store the information.
Consolidation is necessary for and effects the long-term storage of information.
Long-Term Memory a. Represents the storehouse of information that has been consolidated and made relatively permanent. Although the limbic system is the essential structure initiating consolidation, the actual memory stores are throughout the nervous system. Their location is a function of the brain structures involved in processing the information. Receptors to projection cortex have very little storage capability as they are used to process all information for that modality and thus are subject to interference. The sensory association cortex is more important as it is at this level that patterns of neurons can be unique and sleective processess information with less interference.