13.2 Flashcards
What is skill learning?
Learning how to perform a challenging task simply by doing it over and over
Is the medial temporal lobe required to gain skills and retain them?
No
What 3 skills are impaired by damage to the basal ganglia?
- sensorimotor skill
- perceptual skills
- cognitive skills
What is priming?
A change in the way you process a stimulus, usually a word or a picture, because you’ve seen it, or something similar, previously.
What is perceptual priming?
Related to reduced activity in bilateral occipitotemporal cortex
What is conceptual priming?
associated with reduced activation of the left frontal cortex
What is Associative Learning?
The association between two stimuli, or between a stimulus and a response
What is Classical conditioning?
Aka Pavlovian, learning that stimulus predicts specific outcomes; ringing a bell and putting meat powder in a dogs mouth will eventually cause the dog to start salivating when it hears the bell alone
What is eye blink condition?
It is a form of classical conditioning
What is crucial for simple eye-blinking conditioning?
Circuits in the cerebellum
What is the procedure for classical conditioning?
Neutral stimulus, repeatedly paired with a stimulus that elicits a response, begins to elicit the response of the stimulus when presented alone
What is Instrumental conditioning?
Aka operant conditioning; learning that a specific behavior produces a specific outcome; ex. animal learns that performing a certain action if followed by a reward
What are cognitive maps?
Memory representation of our spatial enviornment
What is crucial for spatial learning?
The hippocampus
What are place cells?
Cells in the hippocampus that become active when in, or moving toward, a particular location
