K & W 18 pp 502-507

Question 1

Emotional Memory

Answer 1

trigger rapid fight or light response (amygdala close connections with medial temporal cortical structures)

Question 2

Short Term Memory

Answer 2

AKA Working Memory or Temporal Memory a neural record of the recent events in their order. Short term memory systems hold sensory events, movements, and cognitive information such as the digits, words, names, or other items, for a brief period of time

Question 3

Left-Posterior-Temporal Lesion

Answer 3

can result in an almost total inability to repeat verbal stimuli such as digits, letters, words and sentences. Example patient K.F.

Question 4

Short term memory and frontal lobes

Answer 4

Damage to the frontal cortex is the recognized cause of many short-term memory impairment for tasks in which subjects must temporarily remember the location of the stimuli.

Question 5

Proactive Interference

Answer 5

When earlier information interferes with learning new information

Question 6

prefrontal areas take part in different types of short term memory

Answer 6

1. Short term memory for object to location in space mediated by the dorsal stream.
2. The dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex areas, 9 and 46 participate in short-term memory for visual object recognition (ventral stream) and receive information from the inferior temporal cortex.
3. Area 8 searches for an object when a stimulus is presented, and areas nine and 46 remember objects identified in sequence.

Question 7

Transient global amnesia

Answer 7

Described as a loss of old memories and inability to form new ones, the condition is acute, with a sudden onset and usually a short course. Can be a one time event

Question 8

diseases that impair memory

Answer 8

Herpes simplex, Alzheimer’s and Korasoff’s syndrome