BioCog 6A memory cognitive Flashcards

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Clive Wearing

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  • musician
  • medial temporal lobe damage
  • no new memories
  • some retrograde amnesia
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Henry Molaison

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  • medial temporal area
  • no new memories
  • but NO retrograde amnesia
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3
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K.F.

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  • bike accident
  • parietal damage
  • very weak WM
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4
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K.C.

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  • poor episodic memory
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5
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Italien woman

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  • poor semantic memory
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6
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semantization of episodic memory

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  • stronger the longer ago
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7
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priming studies show

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  • explicit performance reduces quicker than implicit
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8
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elaborative rehearsal

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  • deep processing
  • imagery
  • more effective
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9
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paired associate learning

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  • learning meaningless word pairs

- improved by imagination

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10
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retrieval practice

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  • recalling memory without a cue
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11
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recognition task

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  • f.e. which of these words was in the list?
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12
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cued recall

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  • what rhymes with that?
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13
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encoding specitfity

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  • being in the same place or context helps
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14
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state-dependend learning

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  • being in the same state of mind helps
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15
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transfer-appropriate learning

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  • for recognition: deep

- for cued-recall: shallow

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16
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synaptic consolidation

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  • within minutes
17
Q

systems consolidation

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  • takes years
  • brain repeates itself
  • hippocampus reactivates experiences
  • during sleep and relaxation
18
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standard model

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  • hippocampus puts stuff into neocortex
  • isnt involved anymore
  • explains graded amnesia (older memories are stronger consolidated
19
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multiple trace model

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  • hippocampus is active for all retirevals
  • changing response over time
  • re-opens connections
  • enables learning, altering, erasing
  • does NOT include semantic memory