brain regions

Question 1

main regions relating to memory

Answer 1

cerebral, cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, cerebellum

Question 2

amygdala

Answer 2

aids in encoding emotional component of episodic and classically conditioned memories

Question 3

hippocampus

Answer 3

• encodes explict memory(episodic and semantic memory)
  -temproraily stores semantic and episodic memory
• ensures explicit memories are neurologically stable and long lasting

Question 4

neocortex

Answer 4

stores explict memory and implcit memory

Question 5

basal ganliga

Answer 5

• encoiding and storage of procedural memory
• encoding and storage of cc associated with behaviours, procedures and habits

Question 6

cerebellum

Answer 6

• encoding and temporary storage of procedural
• formation and permeant storage of conditioned reflexes via classical conditioning

Question 7

alzehimenters

Answer 7

Alzheimer’s disease involves widespread neural damage in specific brain areas that impacts on an individual’s episodic and semantic memory.
The existence of amyloid plaques (around neurons) and neurofibrillary tangles (within neurons) throughout these brain regions that are accompanied by neuronal death are required parts of this understanding. Students should understand the progression of the disease throughout areas of the brain (hippocampus, neocortex, cerebellum) and that Alzheimer’s patients have a reduced ability to retrieve long-term memories of autobiographical events as well as an impeded ability to undergo episodic future thinking (constructing possible imagined futures).

Question 8

affect of aphantsia

Answer 8

people with aphantasia has highlighted the role visual imagery plays in both the retrieval of long-term explicit memories and when undergoing episodic future thinking.