Learning and Memory Flashcards
What are 2 factors that affect the effort or time needed for consolidation?
1) Emotional Salience/Arousal
2) Familiarity
What part of the brain is essential for working memory?
Prefrontal Cortex
What are the 2 types of Long-Term Memory?
Implicit and Explicit
What are the 2 divisions of explicit LTM?
Semantic and Episodic
What part of the brain is associated with explicit LTM?
Hippocampus
What are the 4 divisions of implicit LTM?
1) Emotional Associations
2) Priming
3) Skills and Habits
4) Conditioned Reflexes
What part of the brain is associated with emotional associations?
Amygdala
What part of the brain is associated with priming?
Cortex
What part of the brain is associated with skills and habits?
Motor Cortex, Basal Ganglia, Cerebellum
What part of the brain is associated with conditioned reflexes?
Cerebellum
What are four types of synaptic change that accompany synapse strengthening?
1) More neurotransmitter is released
2) Enlargement of post-synaptic membrane
3) Stimulation of terminal by interneuron
4) Development of new dendritic spine and axon terminal
What ion is required for LTP?
Calcium
What gas neurotransmitter is required for LTP?
Nitric Oxide
What are the characteristics of AMPA and NMDA receptors?
Ligand-gated, ionotropic receptors
What is the difference between AMPA and NMDA receptors?
NMDA receptors have a magnesium ion blocking pore
