Learning and Memory Flashcards
Who was a perosn who really helped learning?
What diseae did HM suffer from?
Epilepsy
What did they remove?
His temporal lobes which left him with severe amnesia
What does H.M remember really well?
His childhood
Looking at H.M, what iddresarchers figure out?
That parts of H. M’s medial temporal lobe that were removed including the hippocampus and parahippocampal region play critical roles in short term memories to long term permanent memories
What memory did H. M have?
Long term, not short term
The medical temporal region is richly connected to widespread area of the
cerebral cortex, includingthe regions responsible fo rthinking nad anguage
Wheras the meidcal temporal region is
importat for forming, organizing, consolidating and retrieving memory
What are cortical areas important for
for the long term storage of knowledge about facts and events and for how this knowledge is used
Our ability to learn and consciously remeber every day facts is called
declarative memory
Studies using functional brain imagin have identified a large netowrk of areas in the cerebral cortex
When we have new experiences, information initially enters what?
Working emmory, a transiet form of declarative memroy
What does working memory deend on?
the prefrontal cortex as well as other cerebral cortical areas. Studies on anials have shown that neuron
Studies on the animals have shown that neurons in the refrontal cortex maintain relevant
information during working memory na can combine diffent kinds of sensory information when required
In humans, the prefrontal cortex is
highly activated when people maintian and manipulate memories
