Brain Areas

Question 1

Hippocampus

(3)

Answer 1

• encodes explicit memories
• holds information and then directs to other parts of the brain like the neocortex for storage
• provides context about events and associations with these events (like emotion)

Question 2

Cerebellum

(2)

Answer 2

• encodes implicit memories
• procedural memories and motor classically conditioned responses

Question 3

Basal Ganglia

(4)

Answer 3

• encodes procedural memory
• involved in voluntary movement
• habit learning
• operant conditioning goal-directed behaviours - because of the substantia nigra and dopamine

Question 4

Amygdala

(2)

Answer 4

• encodes emotional information in explicit and implicit memory especially fear
• emotional classically conditioned responses

Question 5

Neocortex

(4)

Answer 5

• stores explicit and implicit memory
• memory is not localised but is distributed through the cortex
• motor cortex involved in procedural memory
• priming