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Long Term Memory Flashcards

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What type of priming is responsible for false memory of lure words

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Semantic priming

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False memory for lure words is due to a failure of which memory process

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Retrieval

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What type of memory is primarily used to recall a list of words

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Episodic

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The false memory effects that occur in the DRM paradigm suggest what about episodic memory

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Retrieving episodic memory is reconstructive, involving making a best hypothesis based on evidence from memory plus prior experience

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What is encoding

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Initial creation of memory traces in brain from incoming information

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What is consolidation

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Continued organization and stabilization of memory traces over time

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What is storage

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Retention of memory traces over time

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What is retrieval

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Accessing/ using stored information from memory traces

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What 3 subsystems are part of nondeclarative (implicit) memory

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Priming, skill learning, conditioning

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What 2 subsystems are part of declarative (explicit) memory

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Semantic and episodic memory

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What is anterograde amnesia

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Memory loss affecting information acquired after damage

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What is retrograde amnesia

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Memory loss affecting information acquired before damage

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Bilateral damage to the medial temporal lobe leads to the loss of what kind of memory formation

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Cannot form new declarative memories for events - anterograde

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What does medial temporal lobe amnesia impair

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Declarative memory

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What does medial temporal lobe damage impair

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Declarative memory but not working memory

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Left temporoparietal damage impairs what

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Working memory but not declarative

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Occipital lobe damage impairs what

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Nondeclarative but not declarative memory performance

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What is priming

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Change in processing a stimulus due to previous encounter with same or related stimulus

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What is skill learning

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Gradual improvement in performance due to repeated practice

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What is conditioning

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Simple responses to associations between stimuli

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How can priming be measured

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Increased probability of generating a particular stimulus, increased processing speed, and change in eye movement patterns

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What is habituation

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Reduced response to an unchanging stimulus

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What is sensitization

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Increased response to an unchanging stimulus

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What is direct priming (i.e. Repetition priming)

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Prime and target are the same

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What is indirect priming and its most common form

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Prime and target are different. Most common form is semantic priming (envelope and letter)

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What are the 2 forms of direct priming

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Perceptual and conceptual

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What is conceptual priming

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Cue and target are semantically or associatively related

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What is perceptual priming

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Cue and target are perceptually related

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29
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Does study-test format changes increase or decreased perceptual priming

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Decrease

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30
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What is repetition suppression of perceptual priming

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The reduction of neural responses within sensory cortices as a neural mechanism

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What does the sharpening theory explain

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How reduced neural activity leads to an enhanced processing of a stimulus

32
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What is the purpose of semantic priming

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To facilitate everyday cognitive tasks like reading with comprehension

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Does Priming with pre-existing memory representations lead to modification and repetition suppression, or the creation and enhancement of representations

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With preexisting, modification and suppression. Without leads to creation and enhancement

34
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Which brain region associates adaptation to novel sensory-motor relationships

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The posterior parietal cortex

35
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Skill learning depends mostly on what brain area

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The basal ganglia

36
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What is classical conditioning

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An initially neutral condition stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response due to pairing an unconditioned stimulus which causes the reflex of an unconditioned response

37
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What is operant conditioning

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The probability of a behavioural response is altered by associating a response with a reward or punishment

38
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Describe delay condition in classical conditioning

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The air puff (US) occurs during the tone (CS)

39
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Describe trace conditioning in classical conditioning

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The air puff (US) occurs after the tone (CS)

40
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What are the 2 main categories of operant conditioning

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Goal directed actions driven by action-outcome possibilities

And stimulus driven habit driven by stimulus-response associations

41
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What brain region does action-outcome learning depend mostly on

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The hippocampus (and some of the dorsal striatum)

42
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What brain region does stimulus-response learning mostly depend on

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The dorsal striatum

43
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What brain region + type of learning does motor sequence learning depend on

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The basal ganglia and reinforcement learning

44
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What is the sensory/functional theory for semantic memory

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The organization of semantic representations based on relevant sensory and motor features
Eg. ‘Lick’ activates primary motor cortex region for ‘face’

45
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What is the domain-specific theory for semantic memory

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Organization of semantic representations is based on semantic categories
Eg. Fruits and vegetables: Apple, orange, lettuce

46
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What is another name for an emgram

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A memory trace: the physical and biochemical changes underlying memory storage in the brain

47
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How are engrams primarily defined

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The connectivity of brain regions originally involved in processing the relevant category of info.
Eg. Visual info memory traces are stored mostly in the visual cortex

48
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What quote can sum up Hebbian Learning

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Cells that fire together wire together. (How engrams are formed)

49
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What is long term potentiation

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An increase in synaptic strength as a cellular mechanism of memory. Can be induced by high-frequency stimulation.

50
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What are the properties of Early LTP

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Increased presynaptic release of neurotransmitter and

Increased number of postsynaptic receptors

51
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What are the properties of Late LTP

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Increased number of dendritic spines and synapses

52
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What is Long Term Depression

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When presynaptic action potential does not lead to postsynaptic action potential, connection is weakened. Specified to activated synapses

53
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What does it mean that long term potentiation shows associativity

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Learning experiences can lead to long term increase in correlated firing among hippocampal neurons that were active during learning

54
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What 5 aspects does reconstruction/ retrieval of episodic memory rely on

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Memory trace
Genes
Past experience
Internal state
Environmental context
55
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What are the 2 subdivisions of episodic memory

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Recollection and familiarity

56
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Which brain region are critical to declarative memory

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Medial temporal lobe regions because they serve as pointers to the locations of memory traces

57
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What are the 2 types of representations when encoding declarative memory

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Distributed cortical traces and hippocampal indices

58
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Where are memory indices stored

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The hippocampus

59
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Is it remote memories or recent memories that can bypass the hippocampus for retrieval

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Remote memories because they only need the retrieval cue

60
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What is the role of the prefrontal cortex during episodic encoding and retrieval

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Executive control of memory processes, including goal maintenance and top-down attention

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What is the role of the posterior parietal cortex during episodic encoding and retrieval

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Attention control during memory processes, including top-down and bottom-up attention

62
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What is the cognitive map theory (Medial Temporal Lobe role)

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Memory for spatial relationships in the environment. Evidenced by ‘place cells’ that fire when an animal is in a particular location

63
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What is relational memory theory (medial temporal lobe role)

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Memory for associations in general

64
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What happens to relationships across pairs (relational memory theory) when the Fornix is damaged

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Single pairs are intact but relationships across pairs is disrupted

65
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Which brain regions are more critical for episodic memory, and which is more critical for semantic memory

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Hippocampus for episodic, left anterior temporal cortex for semantic

66
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Is the hippocampus linked more to familiarity or recollection

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Recollection

67
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What are the roles for the different medial temporal lobe subregions?
(Perirhinal, parahippocampal, hippocampus)

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Perirhinal- binding features of objects (ventral ‘what’ pathway)
Parahippocampal- spatial layouts (dorsal ‘where’ pathway)
Hippocampus- relationships in general

68
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Where is the “Hub” located in the brain for the distributed plus hub view of abstract knowledge storage

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The hub is in the anterior temporal lobe

69
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What kind of knowledge is the anterior temporal lobe more associated with

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Social knowledge

70
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What are confabulations

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False memories for complex autobiographical events. Associated with damage to certain frontal lobe regions

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In the attention to memory model, what is the dorsal parietal cortex associated with, and what is the ventral parietal cortex associated with

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Dorsal: top-down attention- demanding memory searches and monitoring operations
Ventral: bottom-up attention- salient memories and retrieval cues

72
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In the brain, what is the dorsal parietal cortex associated with, and what is the ventral parietal cortex associated with

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Dorsal- familiarity and low-confidence recognition

Ventral- recollection and high-confidence recognition

73
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What is Ribot’s Law

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Memory loss following brain damage affects recent memories more than remote memories

74
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What are the 2 theories of system consolidation in declarative memory

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Standard consolidation theory and multiple trace theory

75
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What is standard consolidation theory

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Recent event memory traces are disconnected and stored in the hippocampus. Remote memory traces are retrieved through repeated activation and are thus independent of the hippocampus.

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What is multiple trace theory

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Episodic memories are always dependent on the hippocampus. Each time a memory is deactivated, a new memory trace is stored in the HC. Only semantic memories are stored independent of the HC.

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