Extra Pt. II

Question 1

engram?

Answer 1

engram: memory trace, physical basis of a stored mem.

Question 2

info processing ocurrers in parallel across a large number of distributed units-

Answer 2

info processing ocurrers in parallel across a large number of distributed units

Question 3

Would Alzheimer’s patients, who have damage to the hippocampus, be impaired more on perceptual or conceptual priming?

Answer 3

conceptual since the perceptual priming uses the occipital lobe

Question 4

What is the sharpening model of priming?

Answer 4

when a stimulus is repeated, neutrons that aren’t essential fire less leading to a more efficient sharpened representation and a reduction in neural activity.

Question 5

What brains areas are involved in memory for episodic events? For semantic memories?

Answer 5

episodic: hippocamp, semantic mem: l. anterior temp

Question 6

What is the difference between declarative and nondeclarative memory?

Answer 6

decorative is conscious (in bilateral medial temp lobe) non declarative is unconscious (in r. occipital lobe)

Question 7

What is episodic memory? What is semantic memory? What is autobiographical memory?

Answer 7

episodic mem is narrative mem, semantic is processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience, autobiographical is about yourself

Question 8

What is the episodic memory theory of hippocampal function?

Answer 8

episodic memories, consolidated or otherwise, always depend on the hippocampus

Question 9

What is the retrieval mode?

Answer 9

mental state of episodic retrieval (the retrieval of episodic memories) which is assumed to be qualitatively different from the mental states of other cognitive abilities.

Question 10

How does sleep influence memory consolidation?

Answer 10

Sleep improves memory consolidation. essential for it actually. this is stage 2 sleep.

Question 11

What are the symptoms of dyslexia and how common is it?

Answer 11

poor readers, dicciculty processing speech sounds, translating visual to verbal difficulty wring, bad spellers prone to errors of letter transportation. 5-15% kids affected.

Question 12

What are formants

Answer 12

one of several frequencies that represent the natural resonances of different components of the vocal tract.

Question 13

What does the case of Genie tell us about language (

Answer 13

Genie completely deprived of language till 13 and despite training could never go beyond “applesauce buy store?”

Question 14

What is a universal grammar?

Answer 14

all langue must share basic rules

Question 15

4 amygdala projections

Answer 15

hypothal, midbrain, pons, medulla