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| Acquisition of new information or knowledge |
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| Retention of learned information |
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| Memory of facts and events – conscious access |
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Procedural memory (skills and habits),
conditioning |
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| declarative memory takes place where? |
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| medial temporal lobe; decephalon |
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| 2 parts of nondeclarative memory |
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| procedural memory; classical conditioning |
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| procedural memory takes place where? |
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| classical condition skeletal musculature takes place where? "" emotional responses where? |
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| Permanent storage in long-term memory requires |
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| Loss of memory and/or loss of the ability to learn |
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| physical location of a memory |
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| Experiments on cortical basis of learning by |
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Lashley found a correlation between
the severity of behavioral deficit and
size (but not location) of cortical
lesions called |
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Conceptual link between memory storage and
representation of stimuli within the cortex |
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reciprocally connected and
distributed set of cells |
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| Reverberation of activity within the assembly corresponds to |
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Persistence of activation leads to________of the assembly’s
connections (“growth process”) |
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Subsequently, the assembly can be triggered by a weaker stimulus,
or by only a portion of the stimulus. The reciprocal connection will
automatically |
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| “complete” the cortical representation of the stimulus. |
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| Partial destruction of the assembly may not cause |
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| Responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex (IT) to faces show |
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| learning-related changes over time |
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Responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex (IT) to faces show
learning-related changes over time. These neurons underlie both |
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Bilateral resection of the medial temporal lobe (1953) to ameliorate
severe epileptic attacks, possibly due to a bicycle accident at age 9 (“a
frankly experimental operation”) |
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memory appears to have a distinct neural
substrate. Their work inspired animal models of amnesia |
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partial retrograde amnesia for events during the
years preceding the operation, complete anterograde amnesia for all
events following the operation |
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| learn new tasks and skills |
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| Structures in the medial temporal lobe are involved in the |
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| consolidation of declarative memories |
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Delayed non-match to sample
task |
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Delayed non-match to sample
task (DNMS) probes |
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| Lesions of the medial temporal lobes cause deficits in |
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Study of R.B. and other patients (G.D. etc.) showed that damage
limited to (a specific subfield of) the hippocampal formation was
sufficient to produce |
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| clinically significant anterograde memory loss. |
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Other structures involved in
declarative memory are
located in the |
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Alcoholism (thiamine
deficiency) results in damage
to the mamillary bodies and |
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Medial temporal lobe areas are connected to the frontal lobes
via the |
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| dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus. |
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Lesions of prefrontal cortex result in deficits of working memory
used for |
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problem solving as well as planning of behaviors
(recall Phineas Gage…) |
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Test for deficits often associated with
prefrontal cortical damage... |
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Wisconsin
card-sorting test |
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| Working memory is often studied in |
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| Neurons in monkey prefrontal cortex show |
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increased activity during
a delay period (no stimulus present). |
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| Neural activity corresponds to |
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| mental representation of a “goal” |
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