Brain Structures Involved in Memory

Question 1

What type of memories are located in the frontal lobes?

Answer 1

> Episodic memory

> The precessing, encoding and storage of procedural memories

Question 2

What type of memories are located in the parietal lobes?

Answer 2

> Spatial memory/awareness

Question 3

What type of memories are located in the temporal lobes?

Answer 3

> Sounds
Names of colours
Places

Question 4

What type of memories located in the hippocampus?

Answer 4

> Explicit memories

> Forming explicit memories
Consolidating and retrieving long-term explicit memories (semantic/episodic)

Question 5

What type of memories located in the amygdala?

Answer 5

> Forming long-term implicit memories

> Procedural
Emotional
Classically conditioned memories

Question 6

What type of memories located in the basal ganglia?

Answer 6

> Implicit memories

> Longterm procedural memory

> Parkinson’s disease affects the subtantsia nigra, part of the basal ganglia –> procedural memory is affected

Question 7

What type of memories located in the cerebellum?

Answer 7

> Encoding, processing and storing procedural memories
Classical conditioned responses
Motor skil tasks