Chapter 11 Flashcards
A change in the brain that stores a memory is called
an engram
What structure is thought to store memories for visual images?
inferotemporal cortex
Individuals with medial temporal lobe amnesia, predementia Alzheimer’s patients commonly demonstrate
good semantic memory and poor episodic memory
The NMDA receptor plays a key role in
long-term potentiation
What has been used extensively in the assessment of explicit object-recognition deficits in monkeys?
delayed nonmatching-to-sample task
Hippocampal cells that become active only when the subject is in particular locations are called
place cells
Cerebral ischemia is
a shortage of blood to the brain
H.M.’s greatest postsurgical problem was that he
could not form new explicit long-term memories
Explicit memories for the particular events or experiences of one’s life are - memories
episodic
The pattern of amnesia that is produced by cerebral trauma provides evidence for
gradual memory consolidation
In the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, the level of - is greatly reduced, resulting from degeneration of the basal forebrain
acetylcholine
The ability to refrain from visiting an arm of the radial arm maze more than once on a given test is a measure of - memory
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