Learning and Memory Flashcards

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What is our working definition of a memory?

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Experientially induced changes in the nervous system that may alter future behavior

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What type of learning are habits associated with?

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Stimulus-response (S-R) learning

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What is Thorndike’s Law of Effect?

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A behavior produced by an organism is likely to increase in the future if a desirable outcome is obtained

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What er Tolman’s three cognitive arguments about learning?

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Learning involved making associations among stimuli in environment – no response was necessary
No “biologically significant event” was necessary for learning
You do not need reinforcement or punishment for learning

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What type of learning do rats show early in training?

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Place learning

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What type of learning do rats show when overtrained?

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S-R learning

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How do place and S-R learning differ with the associations they make?

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S-R learning makes associations between a stimuli and a response that will bring about the desired effect.
Place learning makes associations between multiple stimuli.

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What type of memories are the hippocampus critical for?

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Spatial Memories

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What type of memories are believed to be the basis for declarative memories?

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Spatial memories

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10
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What type of memories is the caudate nucleus critical for?

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Response learning

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What advantage does response learning have over spatial/place learning?

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Response learning requires less cognitive load than place/ spatial learning. Shifting to caudate allows hippocampus to “ponder other things.”

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Describe the Trisynaptic circuit of the hypothalamus

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Entorhinal cortex to dentate gyrus (DG) granule cells -> CA3 pyramidals -> CA1 pyramidals

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What is the name for the Entorhinal->DG path?

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Perforant Path

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What is the name for the fibers from DG->CA3?

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Mossy FIbers

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What is the name for the fibers from CA3->CA1?

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Schaffer collaterals

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16
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What role does the ventral hippocampus (anterior hippocampus in primates) seem to have a greater role in?

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Emotional processing

17
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How does the brain track time (short term, not circadian)?

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Ensembles of neurons in the hippocampus are sequentially active

18
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What is the evidence for neuronal ensembles tracking time?

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Animals’ ability to time responses precisely goes down as delay increases, and ensembles become more diffuse with greater passages of time

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What do the cells encoding spatial and temporal relationships suggest about the hippocampus?

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They suggest the hippocampus plays a broad role in “relational” learning

20
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Where does the hippocampus get most of its information?

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The entorhinal cortex

21
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What type of info does the medial entorhinal likely provide?

A

Spatial information

22
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What type of info does the lateral entorhinal likely provide?

A

What/identity information

23
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What are the key systems for non-declarative memories?

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The cerebellum and basal ganglia.

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What type of learning is the ventromedial part of the nucleus accumbens (shell) important for?

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Reinforcement learning

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How is the connection between a response and an outcome "stamped in" at the accumbens shell?
Dopamine increases following the first (few?) reward(s)
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How was DA in the accumbens shell shown to be important for reinforcement learning.
Blocking DA in the accumbens shell prevents reinforcement learning