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anterograde amnesia

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Unable to form most new memories

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Short-term memory stores information for

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a brief period of time, which can be extended by rehearsal, but fades if not stored more permanently

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Long-term memory is

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a more permanent storage of information

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Explicit memory includes

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facts and events that we recall spontaneously and consciously

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Episodic memories

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autobiographical; semantic memories are for facts

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Implicit memories are

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motor skills that can be performed automatically without full awareness of how we do the task

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Emotional memories

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the affective properties of the stimulus

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Amnesia

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loss of existing memories or the inability to form new memories

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With amnesia there is an

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event or incident that causes the memory loss

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retrograde amnesia

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Loss of memory from before the event

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Retrograde amnesia is

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time-dependent, with more recent events more likely to be lost

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Traumatic brain injury often results in

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time-dependent retrograde amnesia, with longer periods of amnesia being associated with more severe injuries

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Some events can be retained as

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islands of memory within the period of retrograde amnesia

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Prospective memory

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remembering things you intend to do, such as run an errand or call a friend

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Destination memory

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memory for past interactions, such as who you told a story to

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Childhood or infantile amnesia

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the inability to remember events from the first 4 years of life and difficulty recalling things that happened in about the first decade of life

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Childhood or infantile amnesia is due to

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developmental changes in cognitive abilities and memory systems that occur in the first decade of life

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alternative hypothesis to Childhood or infantile amnesia

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the rapid proliferation of new hippocampal neurons early in life might disrupt stored memories

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A fugue state

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when an individual loses memory of their personal history

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A fugue state may be due to

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damage to memory systems of the medial temporal lobe

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Amnesias can exist for

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specific categories of items, such as human faces, fruits and vegetables, or animals and birds

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Autonoetic awareness of time is the awareness that

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there is a continuum from our past to our present to our future and allows us to do mental time travel to our past and our future

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Autonoetic awareness depends on the

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hippocampus and frontal lobes, as damage to these areas can cause the loss of this self-knowledge

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It is possible to remember facts and general knowledge without being able to

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remember personal, autobiographical details, suggesting these processes depend on different brain regions

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Semantic memory Involves regions of the
temporal and frontal lobes that are distinct from the areas involved in episodic memory
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fMRI studies identified a network of left-hemisphere regions that are active during
semantic memory tasks and largely overlap with the default network
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Network of temporal-lobe structures and parts of the ventral-stream pathway support
explicit memory
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Multiple thalamic nuclei support
explicit memory because they serve to relay information from the prefrontal cortex to the temporal lobe
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Hippocampus includes two
gyri
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Ammon’s horn contains
pyramidal cells divided into four output layers known as CA1 through CA4
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Dentate gyrus contains
stellate granule cells
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stellate granule cells
sensory cells that undergo neurogenesis to produce new cells throughout life
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The cells of the hippocampus are sensitive to
oxygen deprivation, with CA1 cells being most sensitive, followed by the other CA cells, then the stellate cells of the dentate gyrus
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Patients with damage to the CA1 region have
a few years of retrograde amnesia, whereas those with greater damage have longer periods of amnesia
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Hippocampus stores memories when they are formed, but older memories are stored in the
adjacent cortex
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Early damage to the hippocampus results in
profound problems with episodic memory, but fairly normal semantic memory
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Damage to the hippocampal connections resembles amnesia associated with damage to the
hippocampus itself
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Rhinal cortex of the temporal lobe includes the
perirhinal and entorhinal cortex and is part of the pathway for information flowing into the hippocampus from the neocortex
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Rhinal cortex is often damaged in patients with
medial-temporal-lobe lesions, making it difficult to determine what deficits are due to hippocampal damage and which are due to rhinal cortex damage
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Lesions to the hippocampus resulted in
no problems with object recognition, but the use of context was impaired
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Lesions to the rhinal cortex impaired
object recognition
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Damage to the right temporal cortex impairs
face recognition, spatial position, and maze learning
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Damage to the left temporal lobe impairs
memory for word lists, lists of consonants, and nonspatial associations
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Bilateral lesions of the parietal and occipital lobes can result in specific forms of
amnesia, including color amnesia, prosopagnosia, object anomia, and topographic amnesia
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Damage to the left prefrontal cortex is predicted to interfere with
encoding semantic and episodic memories
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Damage to the right prefrontal cortex is predicted to interfere with
retrieving episodic memory
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Using language and motor skills relies on
implicit memory
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Priming is an experimental test of
implicit memory in which a stimulus is presented initially to make it more likely for the subject to respond later to the same or a similar stimulus
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Patients with amnesia do about as well as control subjects saying the word that was on the studied list or identifying a previously seen picture, even though the patients
do not remember the training
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The proposed implicit memory circuit suggests that
multiple regions of the cortex and the substantia nigra project to the basal ganglia, which projects to the premotor cortex
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Brain-imaging studies during the pursuit rotor implicit memory task find increased activity in the
basal ganglia, motor cortex, and cerebellum
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Patients with Huntington disease have degeneration of the
basal ganglia
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Huntington disease patients are impaired on classic tests of
implicit memory, such as mirror drawing
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Patients with Parkinson disease, which is characterized by
impairments of the basal ganglia, also show deficits of implicit memory
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Successful treatment of Parkinson disease with l-dopa also improves
implicit memory
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Cerebellum projects to the
motor regions of the cortex via the thalamus
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Cerebellum is involved in
classical conditioning tasks, such as eyeblink conditioning
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Cerebellar lesions in rabbits prevent the rabbits from
learning the cue that a puff of air is coming, so they should blink their eye
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Neurotransmitters ascending from the brainstem are associated with memory (4)
Cholinergic Serotonergic Noradrenergic Dopaminergic
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Impairments in the cholinergic system are associated with
Alzheimer disease
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Amnesia can result from damage to the ascending cholinergic and
serotonergic cells simultaneously
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Emotional Memory Involves both
bottom-up and top-down processing
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Emotional Memory
Memory for the affective properties of a stimulus
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Fear conditioning uses a
noxious stimulus paired with a neutral stimulus to evoke an emotional response
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Amygdala is involved in
fear conditioning
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The amygdala plays an important role in
emotional memory
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The amygdala is made of many
nuclei, including the basolateral complex, the cortical nucleus, and the central nucleus
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Regions of the amygdala influence the
autonomic nervous system and the hypothalamus
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Damage to the amygdala impairs
emotional memory, but not implicit or explicit memory
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Short-Term Memory
Forms a record of recent events and the order in which they occurred
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Short-Term Memory Holds information for a
short time while we use the information
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Short-term memory for object information uses the
ventral stream and for motor information uses the dorsal stream, both of which project to the frontal lobe
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Patients with damage to the medial temporal lobe retain
normal short-term memory
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Patients with damage to the posterior temporal lobe or temporo–parieto–occipital junction have
short-term memory impairments
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Frontal-lobe damage is often associated with
with short-term memory impairments
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Patients with frontal-lobe damage are significantly impaired on the
recency test
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Left-frontal-lobe damage is most significant for what type of material
verbal material
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right-frontal-lobe damage is most significant for what type of material
nonverbal material
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Neuropsychological Testing
Common tests present two stimuli, one after the other Patient needs to report whether both stimuli were they same or which one they had seen most recently
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Interference Tasks
Subjects are shown five lists of words and told to recall as many words as possible, The first four lists all contain words from the same category, such as sports or foods The fifth list is from a different category
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In proactive interference, the earlier lists interfered with the ability to
recall information on the later, similar lists
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Patients with frontal-lobe damage show
proactive interference but do not show release from interference
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Savant syndrome
Some individuals can remember large amounts of information for long periods of time
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Superior autobiographical memory
Individuals with highly superior autobiographical memory show almost complete recall for personal events in their lives, down to the weather on the day an event happened
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Superior autobiographical memory - These people have increased
gray matter in temporal and parietal lobes and larger fiber projections to the frontal lobe
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Finding the neural basis of memory is challenging because
memory changes over time
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For a study of short-term visual memory, fMRI showed activity in the
attentional, salience, visual, and default networks
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Therefore, most of the neocortex was involved in a single
short-term memory task
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System consolidation theory
Hippocampus consolidates new memories, which are then stored elsewhere in the cortex
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Multiple-trace theory
different aspects of the memory (autobiographical components, factual semantic components, etc.) are stored in different parts of the cortex simultaneously
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Reconsolidation theory
as memories are recalled, they are changed or edited before being reconsolidated in their new form
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Trace transformation theory
: memories are initially encoded in the posterior hippocampus, but move to the anterior hippocampus, then to the medial prefrontal cortex, losing detail with each transformation
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Associative inference enables us to
combine what we already know with novel information to interpret the current situation
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Memories may be reconstructed to focus on the
“gist,” or essence, of the memory, enabling us to remember and adapt to similar situations in the future

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