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| partial or total loss of memory |
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| inability to remember events subsequent to a disturbance of the brain such as head trauma, electroconvulsive shock, or certain neurodegenerative diseases |
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| in Pavlovian conditioning, the learned response to a formerly neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) |
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| in Pavlovian conditioning, an originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS), triggers a conditioned response |
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| ability to recount what one knows, to detail the time, place, and circumstances of events; often lost in amnesia |
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| drug induced behavioral sensitization |
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| escalating behavioral response to the repeated administration of a psychomotor stimulant such as amphetamine, cocaine, or nicotine; also called behavioral sensitization |
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| memory for the affective properties of stimuli or events |
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| located on the medial surface of the temporal lobe; provides a major route for neocortical input to the hippocampal formation; often degenerates in Alzheimers disease |
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| epidermal growth factor (EGF) |
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| Nerotrophic factor that stimulates the subventricular zone to generate cells that migrate into the striatum and eventually differentiate into neurons and glia |
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| autobiographical memory for events pegged to specific place and time contexts |
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| memory in which a subject can retrieve an item and indicate that he or she knows that the retrieved item is the correct item (i.e., conscious memory) |
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| instrumental conditioning |
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| learning procedure in which the consequences (such as obtaining a reward) of a particular behavior (such as pressing a bar) increase or decrease again; also called operant conditioning |
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| permanent loss of the ability to learn new information (anterograde amnesia) and to retrieve old information (retrograde amnesia) caused by diencephalic damage resulting from chronic alcoholism or malnutrition that produces a vitamin B1 deficiency |
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| an understanding of how a problem can be solved with a rule that can be applied in many different situations |
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| the ability to recall or recognize previous experience |
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| nerve growth factor (NGF) |
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| neurotrophic factor that stimulates neurons to grow dendrites and synapses and, in some cases, promotes the survival of neurons |
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| area of incomplete necrosis (dead tissue) consisting of a central protein core (amyloid) surrounded by degenerative cellular fragments; often seen in the cortex of people with senile dementia's such as Alzheimer's disease |
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| cortex located along the dorsal medial surface of the temporal lobe |
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| learning procedure whereby a neutral stimulus (such as a tone) comes to elicit a response because of its repeated pairing with some event (such as the delivery of food); also called classical conditioning or respondent conditioning |
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| cortex lying next to the rhinal fissure on the base of the brain |
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| using a stimulus to sensitize the nervous system to a later presentation of the same or a similar stimulus |
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| ability to recall a movement sequence or how to perform some act or behavior |
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| inability to remember events that took place before a disturbance of the brain |
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| a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically- triggers a response |
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| using visual information to identify an objects location in space |
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