Chapter 18: Learning and Memory Flashcards
1
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infantile amnesia
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- you have no memories from infancy and early childhood
- episodic memory system is not yet mature
- brain deletes memories to make space for new ones
2
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fugue state
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- sudden and transient loss of personal history
- defect in medial-temporal-lobe memory systems
3
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brain in episodic memory
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- medial temporal
- ventral PFC
- unicate fasciculus
4
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brain in semantic memory
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- temporal and frontal
5
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Ammon’s horn
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- gyrus of hippocampus
- pyramidal cells
6
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dentate gyrus
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- gyrus of hippocampus
- stellate granule cells
7
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two pathways of the hippocampus
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- perforant pathway to posterior temporal
- fimbria fornix to thalamus, PFC, basal ganglia and hypothalamus
8
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CA1 cells
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- pyramidal cellss
- in subiculus in temporal
9
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brain in implicit learning
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- motor cortex
- basal ganglia
- cerebellum
