Dissociating the Influence of Associations from that of Interference in the Human Hippocampus

Authors

Rick Stone, Brigham Young University
Dr. Brock Kirwan, Brigham Young University

Keywords

human hippocampus, associative memory task, colored backgrounds

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Psychology

Abstract

This project has been worked on for nearly a year and a half. It began because research done by others indicated that there was greater hippocampal activity for an associative memory task than for a non-associative memory task. We believe that the greater hippocampal activity they observed may have been a result of higher interference, rather than higher associativity, so we tried to design an experiment to distinguish between the two.

Recommended Citation

Stone, Rick and Kirwan, Dr. Brock (2013) "Dissociating the Influence of Associations from that of Interference in the Human Hippocampus," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 559.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/559