Class 5 - Memory 1 Flashcards
What was intact with HM
- Short-term memory
- Childhood memories
- Ability to learn new tasks and skills
- Above-normal IQ (117)
What was impaired with HM
- No new memories for facts and events (declarative memory)
- Cannot learn information about surroundings
- Cannot remember names or faces of people who he met after his operation
- Loss of memory from 2 years prior to surgery
Flow Chart of memory
Memory is
the presistance of learning
Delarative memory
explicit memory
Events
Episodic Memory
Facts
Semantic Memory
Non declarative memory
implicit memory
Aplysia
A simple nervous system
Amnesia
loss of memory and/or loss of the ability to learn
Storage in LTM requires
consolidation
Testing the gill withdrawal reflex
repeated touching reduces vesicles available
Reaped touchings less and less withdrawl
Hebbian assemblies
“cells that fire together wire together”
- Stimulus activates a cell assembly (reciprocally connected and distributed set of cells)
- Persistence of activation leads to strengthening of assembly’s connections
Activity-dependent change in synaptic networks can
support many different kinds of memory
Excitatory connections between different regions of the hippocampus demonstrate
Hebbian learning
Long-term potentiation (LTP)
Long-lasting increase in synaptic activation
• Happens with repeated patterns of activation close in time
LTP is mediated by
- NMDA and AMPA receptor activity at the post synaptic neuron
- Both are ionotropic glutamate receptors
- Mostly post-synaptic changes (increase in # of receptors)
Antrograde
Everythign afer moment of trama
retrograde
before moment of trama