Declarative Memory Systems beyond the MTL

Question 1

What are the components of the Delay Biron circuit?

Answer 1

Lecture 11, slide 2

Question 2

What is the role of the fornix? What studies show this?

Answer 2

Lecture 11, slide 3-6

-needed for scene learning/recognition in humans, not object recognition

Question 3

What is the diencephalon?

Answer 3

Lecture 11, slide 8

Question 4

What role may the mamillary bodies have in humans?

Answer 4

Lecture 11, slide 9-11

Question 5

Is there a functional difference between the medial and lateral mamillary nuclei? What might be their role/relevance in memory?

Answer 5

Lecture 11, slide 12-13

Question 6

What do lesion/damage studies reveal about the role of the mamillary bodies in macaques and humans?

Answer 6

Lecture 11, slide 14-18

Question 7

What is the role of the anterior thalamus? What studies show this?

Answer 7

Lecture 11, slide 20

Question 8

What is the role of the cingulate cortex?

Answer 8

Lecture 11, slide 22-23

Question 9

What may be the role of the retrosplenial cortex? What studies show this?

Answer 9

Lecture 11, slide 25-26

Question 10

What is the importance/role of the interaction between the prefrontal cortex and the temporal lobe cortex? What do studies that investigate the direct and indirect pathways between them reveal?

Answer 10

Lecture 11, slide 27-29

Question 11

What are crossed unilateral asymmetrical lesions? What are they used for? What have they shown about the role/importance of PFC and temporal cortex interaction?

Answer 11

Lecture 11, slide 30

Question 12

What may be the role of the mediodorsal thalamus? What studies show this?

Answer 12

Lecture 11, slide 31

Question 13

Why is it difficult to study retrograde and anterograde amnesia in human? How can retrograde and anterograde amnesia bee studied in animals? What structures seem to have a role in retrograde or anterograde amnesia?

Answer 13

Lecture 11, slide 32-33

Question 14

What role does the PFC have in episodic memory? What studies show this?

Answer 14

Lecture 11, slide 35

Question 15

What is prospective memory? Is the frontopolar cortex important for prospective memory?

Answer 15

Lecture 11, slide 36