Learning memory Flashcards

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What are implicit memory and what brain regions are important?

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Unconscious memories.
Skills & habits: cortex, basal ganglia and cerebellum.
Emotional association: amygdala. Conditioned reflexes: cerebellum

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What are explicit memories and what brain regions are important?

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conscious memories.
Episodic: remembering events
semantic: knowing facts.
Hippocampus, nearby cortex and parts of the thalamus

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What are some differences b/t short-term memory (working memory) and long-term memory?

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Short term: small capacity, fades quickly unless rehearsed.

Long term: Infinite capacity, last indefinitely, could be forgotten but later remembered with certain cues.

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What part of the brain is important for working memory?

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Prefrontal cortex

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What were HM’s impairments; what could he still do?

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HM had parts of the temporal lobe w/ hippocampus removed. It had little effect on his perception, intelligence and personality but he had anterograde amnesia (cannot form new memories).

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What other brain regions are important various types of memory?

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Cerebellum
Striatum
Prefrontal cortex
Amygdala 
Inferotemporal cortex
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What does cerebellum do for memory?

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stores memories of sensorimotor skills & conditioned reflexes

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What does the striatum do for memory?

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habit formation

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What does the prefrontal cortex do for memory?

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working memory & temporal order of events

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What does the amygdala do for memory?

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emotional association. Unknown if stores mems or strengthens emotionally significant memories somewhere else

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What does the inferotemporal cortex do for memory?

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stores memories of visual input

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What are concept neurons?

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The concept that certain cells are meant to respond to particular individuals, or places related individuals

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What is standard consolidation theory?

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hippocampus stores memories temporarily while consolidating the memory. Consistent w/ the temp retrograde amnesia

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What is another explanation for what the hippocampus does with memory?

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new experiences are rapidly and sparsely encoded in hippocampus and related structures. Memories strengthen over time w/ similar experiences/recall

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What is a Hebbian synapse?

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A synapse that increases in effectiveness b/c of simultaneous activity in pre & postsynaptic neurons. “cells that fire together, wire together.”

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What is LTP?

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Long-term Potentiation: a burst of stimulation from axons. 100 excitations per second on the dendrites result in potentiated synapses for minutes/days/weeks

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What receptors are necessary?

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Glutamate receptors: AMPA & NMDA

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Understand cooperativity in LTP

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nearly simultaneous stimulation by two or more axons results in LPT

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Understand specificity in LTP

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only active synapses become strengthened

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Understand associativity in LTP

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pairing a weak input w/ a strong input enhances later responses to the weak input

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What are some presynaptic changes that occur in LTP?

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Retrograde transmitter from dendrite to axon terminal usually nitric oxide. Decreased threshold for producing Aps. Increased release of neurotransmitter. Expansion of axon. Release of NT from more sites along axon

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What gas neurotransmitter is involved in these changes?

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Nitric Oxide NO

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What is evidence that there is a functional connection between LTP and actual learning?

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Mimics normal activity, LTP effects are greatest in brain areas involved in learning & memory. Learning produces LTP like changes.

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What are the 3 parts of LTP?

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Induction
Maintenance
Expression

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Whats Induction?

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Learning & in the early stages of LTP

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Whats expression?

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Memory and in the late stages of LTP

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What is Expression?

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Recall.

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Which stages of LTP depend on protein synthesis?

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Maintenance & Expression