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| Type of learning: all sensory systems can do it, allows profit from experience, learn to recognize previously perceived stimuli |
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| Type of learning - classical conditioning, perform behavior when stimulus present |
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| stimulus response learning |
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| ^WU=Uaiaj Consolidation or reverberating circuit. a repeatedly activated synapse and postsynaptic neuron firing changes will strengthen synapse |
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| Long term increase in firing results in increase in EPSP in postsynaptic neurons, involved in learning @ hippocampal level |
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| Time to get from Short to Long term memory? And what facilitates? |
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| 5-6 hours, Ep and Norep inephrine |
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| Memory peaks at what age, and how much info is retained? |
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| 8, 1/100 bits retained, 1 or 2 bits/second while concentrating |
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| What can cause pathways & neurons to deterioriate, causing LTM loss? |
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| Decrased ACh, Brittle membranes, poor conductivity, drugs |
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| This goes from midbrain to basal forebrain, involves the nucleus accumbens, and releases dopamine |
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| What role does the prefrontal cortex play in learning? |
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| Turns on dopamine in the nucleus accumbens |
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| Punishment is in what circuit? |
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| Periventricular system (PVS) (involves hypothalamus, thalamus, periaqueductal grey matter) |
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| This stimulates secretion of adrenocoricotropic hormone (ACTH), which stimulates adrenal glands, and stimulates punishment/inhibits reward circuits. |
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| Type of learning: changes in motor systems, involves basal ganglia, parkinsons |
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