10 a.b. Memory 2

Question 1

when is procedural memory impaired?

Answer 1

after striatal damage (dorsal striatum)

Question 2

what types of patients show impairments in procedural memory?

Answer 2

Parkinson’s

Huntington’s

Question 3

what do amygdala lesions do?

Answer 3

• reduce autonomic reactivity to UC emotional stim.

- block dev. of autonomic reactivity to conditional stimuli

Question 4

what is the amygdala important for?

Answer 4

-emotional reactions to memories

Question 5

how are hippocampus + amygdala similar?

Answer 5

• necessary for acquiring new emotional attributes (anterograde emotions)
• not retrieval of old emo attributes (retrograde emotions)

Question 6

short term memory brain region

Answer 6

dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 7

patients with with DLPC damage have

Answer 7

working memory impairments

-decision making impairments

Question 8

what tasks are used to assess decision-making? working memory?

Answer 8

1. iowa gambling task

2. delay Tasks

Question 9

what does damage to the basal forebrain lead to?

Answer 9

• impairment in memory

- impairments in temporal ordering