13 Learning And Memory Flashcards

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Stimulus-response learning

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Learning to automatically make a particular response in the presence of a particular stimulus; includes classical instrumental conditioning.

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Perceptual learning

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To recognize a particular stimulus.

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Classical conditioning

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Learning procedure; when a stimulus that initially produces no particular response is followed several times by an unconditional stimulus (US) that produces a defensive or at appetitive response (the unconditional response – UR) the first stimulus (now called a conditional stimulus - CS) itself evokes the response (now called a conditioned response – CR).

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Hebb rule

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Hypothesis proposed by Donald Hebb that the cellular basis of learning involves strengthening of a synapse that is repeatedly active when the postsynaptic neuron fires.

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Instrumental conditioning

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Learning procedure whereby the effects of a particular behavior in a particular situation increase (reinforce) or decrease (punish) sees the probability of the behavior; also called operant conditioning.

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Reinforcing stimulus

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Appetite of stimulus that follows a particular behavior and thus makes the behavior become more frequent.

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Punishing stimulus

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Aversive stimulus that follows a particular behavior and thus makes the behavior become less frequent.

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Motor learning

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Learning to make a new response.

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Long-term potentiation (LPT)

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Long-term increase in the excitability of a neuron to a particular synaptic input caused by repeated high-frequency activity of that input.

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Hippocampal formation

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Forebrain structure of the temporal lobe, constituting an important part of the limbic system; includes the hippocampus proper (Ammon’s horn), dentate gyrus, and subiculum.

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Population EPSP

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Evoked potential that represents the EPSPs of a population of neurons.

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Associative long-term potentiation

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Long-term potentiation in which concurrent stimulation of weak and strong synapses to a given neuron strengthens the weak one.

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NMDA receptor

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Specialized ionotropic glutamate receptor that controls the calcium channel that is normally blocked by Mg2 ions; involved in long-term potentiation.

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AP5

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2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate, a drug that blocks and NMDA receptors.

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Dendritic spike

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Action potential that occurs in the dendrite of some types of pyramidal cells.

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AMPA receptor

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Ionotropic glutamate receptor that controls a sodium channel; when open, it produces EPSPs.

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CaM-KII

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Type II calcium-calmodulin kinase, enzyme that must be activated by calcium; may play a role in the establishment of long-term potentiation.

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Nitric oxide synthase

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Enzyme responsible for the production of nitric oxide.

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Long-term depression (LTD)

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Long-term decrease in the excitability of a neuron to a particular synaptic input caused by stimulation of the terminal button while the postsynaptic membrane is hyperpolarized or only slightly depolarized.

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Short-term memory

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Memory for a stimulus or an event that last for short while.

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Delayed matching-to-sample task

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Task that requires the subject to indicate which of several stimuli has just been perceived.

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Ventral tegmental area (VTA)

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Group of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral midbrain whose axons form the mesolimbic and mesocortical systems; plays a critical role in reinforcement.

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Nucleus accumbens (NAC)

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Nucleus of the basal forebrain near the septum; receives dopamine-secreting terminal buttons from neurons of the ventral tegmental area and is thought to be involved in reinforcement and attention.

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Medial forebrain bundle (MFB)

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Fiber bundle their runs in a rostral-caudal direction through the basal forebrain and lateral hypothalamus; electrical stimulation of these axons is reinforcing.

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Anterograde amnesia
Amnesia for events that occur after some disturbance to the brain, such as head injury or certain degenerative brain diseases.
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Retrograde amnesia
Amnesia for events that preceded some disturbance to the brain, such as a head injury or electroconvulsive shock.
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Korsakoff's syndrome
Permanent anterograde amnesia caused by brain damage resulting from chronic alcoholism or malnutrition.
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Consolidation
The process by which short-term memories are converted into long-term memories.
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Declarative memory
Memory that can be verbally expressed, such as memory for events in a person's past.
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Nondeclarative memory
Memory whose formation does not depend on the hippocampal formation; a collective term for perceptual, stimulus-response, and motor memory.
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Perirhinal cortex
Region of limbic cortex adjacent to the hippocampal formation that, along with the parahippocampal cortex, relays information between the entorrhinal cortex and other regions of the brain.
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Parahippocampal cortex
Region of limbic cortex adjacent to the hippocampal formation that, along with the perirhinal cortex, relays information between the entorhino cortex and other regions of the brain.
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Episodic memory
Memory of a collection of perceptions of events organized in time and identified by particular context.
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Semantic memory
Memory of facts and general information.
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Semantic dementia
Loss of semantic memories caused by progressive degeneration of the new cortex of the lateral temporal lobes.
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Place cell
Neuron that becomes active when the animal is in a particular location in the environment; most typically found in the hippocampal formation.
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Sharp-wave-ripple complex (SWRs)
Period of intense, high-frequency oscillation's that originate in hippocampal fields CA1 and CA3 and propagate to the cerebral cortex; involved in replay of information from periods of waking during slow-wave sleep.
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Reconsolidation
Process of consolidation of a memory that occurs subsequent to the original consolidation that can be triggered by a reminder of the original stimulus; thought to provide the means for modifying existing memories.