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The Entorhinal Cortex

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Main interface between the hippocampus and the cortex

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Location of the hippocampus

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Medial wall of the temporal lobe in both hemispheres, forms the bottom of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle

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Role of the EC-hippocampus System

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autobiographical/declarative/episodic memories, and in particular spatial memories including memory formation, memory consolidation, and memory optimization in sleep

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Dentate gyrus

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part of hippocampal system involved with the formation of new memories

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Location of Perirhinal cortex (PRC)

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medial temporal lobe; 35 and 36

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Lesions to the Perirhinal cortex (PRC)

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visual recognition memory (esp. object recognition ability)

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Role of posterior cingulate cortex

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episodic memory retrieval

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Retrograde memory loss is often _____ and _____

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graded (very recent memories are most affected), time-limited

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Anterograde amnesia is _____

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irreversible

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The Ribot Gradient

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time gradient in retrograde amnesia (recent memories are more likely to be lost than the more remote memories)

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Hippocampal/MTL memories are consolidated into the _____ over time, and become ________

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neocortex; hippocampal independent

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The patient HM had the _____, _____, and ____ surgically removed to cure his epilepsy

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hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, amygdala

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Clive Wearing contracted ____, which attacked his ____

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herpesviral encephalitis, hippocampus

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Clive Wearing’s memory lasts between __ and ____ seconds

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7 and 30

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Wearing can still _______ because his _____ was not damaged by the virus

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play the piano; procedural memory

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MRI scans of Alzheimer’s show severe atrophy in all areas except the _____, which has moderate atrophy

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right perirhinal cortex

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Memory loss in Alzheimer’s is characterized by difficulty in remembering _____ and the _________

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recently learned facts; inability to acquire new information

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Other subtle problems symptomatic of the early stages of Alzheimer’s involve _____, ____, and _____

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executive functions (of attentiveness, planning, flexibility), abstract thinking, impairments in semantic memory

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Korsakoff’s Syndrome is caused by _____, its onset is linked to _____ and/or _____, which is thought to cause damage to the ______ and ____ as well as generalized cerebral atrophy

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a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) in the brain; chronic alcohol abuse/malnutrition; medial thalamus and hypothalamus

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Korsakoff’s syndrome is characterized by _______, during the later stages there is also _______

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anterograde amnesia; later– retrograde amnesia

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Episodic Memory

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Memory for personally experienced events that occurred in a particular place at a specific time

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Flashbulb memories

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critical autobiographical memories about a major event (where were you when you heard about 9/11?)

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Damage to ___, ____, and/or ___ leads to anterograde and retrograde amnesia

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Hippocampi, Amygdala, Rhinal Cortex

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Anterograde amnesia - lesions to ____

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CA1 of the hippocampus

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Areas damaged in Korsakoff’s

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medial thalamus, hypothalamus

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What lobe is affected Alzheimer’s first lesions?

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medial temporal lobe

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Patients with frontal damage show ______

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confabulation

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Hemispheric Encoding Retrieval Asymmetry

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left frontal lobe is involved with encoding; right frontal lobe is involved with retrieval

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Episodic memory encoding: _____ dissociation

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anterior-posterior

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The Posterior Cingulate (Precuneus) is involved in _______

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the successful retrieval of remembered episodes

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The Ventral Parietal Cortex (VPC) is involved in ____

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episodic memory retrieval tasks, such as old/new recognition memory tasks

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left lateral inferior parietal cortex plays a role in

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episodic memory

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Frontal areas control _______

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encoding and retrieval of memories and executive functioning

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What area stores components of memories?

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posterior association areas

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What regions temporarily bind different components of memory?

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Medial temporal regions

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Damage to the ____ lobe causes modality-specific visual agnosia

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left temporal

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Semantic dementia

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graded deterioration of knowledge that results in the failure to name objects, concepts and people

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Semantic judgments to words and pictures activates ___, ___, ___-

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inferior frontal and temporal lobes, and temporal pole

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The _____ activates to name animals and tools, whereas the _____ activates to name people

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left inferior temporal lobe; temporal pole

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Activations can reflect object’s interaction with the world, for example tool naming can activate _____

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motor regions

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Working memory is the ability to ____

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maintain and manipulate information over short periods of time necessary to guide behavior

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By definition, working memory has two temporal limits, one ________, and the other _____

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in the recent past (the information to be retained), and the other in the proximate future (the consequent action)

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Working memory model:: The central executive system acts as a supervisory system that controls the flow of information from and to its slave systems, the ____, _____, and ______ (a recent addition)

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the phonological loop, the visuo-spatial sketchpad, and the episodic buffer

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Auditory-verbal deficits in working memory involve lesions to _____

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left inferior parietal lobe

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Visual-spatial deficits in working memory involve lesion to ____

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right inferior parietal lobe

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Damages to the ____ lobe and ___ cortex impair working memory

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inferior parietal lobe; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)

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Damages to frontal areas results in difficulties manipulating information in working memory during tasks such as ____ and ____

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card-sorting; selection-without-repetition

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The N-back test is a test of

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working memory- ability to hold information “online” for the current task

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Working Memory Network

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Frontal parietal Network

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The right parietal, inferior frontal, and premotor cortex are activated during ______

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spatial maintenance for working memory

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The _______ is activated during the N-back task (when manipulation is required), for both verbal and spatial material

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Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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The ventrolateral frontal cortex is involved in _________ information online

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maintaining

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This ____ cortex is involved with maintaining information on-line in working memory

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Ventrolateral frontal cortex

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The dorsolateral frontal cortex is involved in ________ information on-line for working memory

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manipulating

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This ____ cortex is involved in manipulating information on-line for working memory

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dorsolateral frontal cortex

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Modality specific, passive stores are in the ________

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posterior parietal/temporal cortex

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Common executive processes occur in the ____

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frontal cortex

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The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is especially important in working memory, but also to ____

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correcting performance

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The posterior parietal/temporal cortex is involved with ____

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modality-specific and passive stores

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The hippocampus and amygdala are independent memory systems, but they act in concert when _____

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emotion meets memory

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The striatum is involved with _____

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procedural learning and reward learning

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The dorsal prefrontal cortex is involved with

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WMMP- working memory, meta-memory, memory strategies, prospective memory

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The ventral prefrontal cortex is involved with ____

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SEA-C (semantic memory, extinction learning, autobiographical retrieval, conceptual priming)

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Working memory, meta-memory, memory strategies and prospective memory—area

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dorsal prefrontal cortex

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Semantic memory, extinction learning, conceptual priming, autobiographical retrieval — area

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Ventral prefrontal cortex

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The MTL memory system is involved with ____

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DMCC - Declarative memory, memory consolidation, contextual fear memory, complex conditioning

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The MTL memory system is made up of

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the hippocampus, the entorhinal cortex, and perirhinal cortex

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The HPA axis is involved with ___

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neurohormonal memory modulation

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The Cerebellum is involved with _____

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Reflexive conditioning and motor learning

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The sensory neocortex is involved with

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MCP- memory storage, conceptual priming, perceptual priming

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Emotion tends to ____ memory

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enhance

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Successful retrieval of emotional pictures elicits greater activity than neutral pictures in the ____, _____, and the _____

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amygdala, entorhinal cortex, and hippocampus

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In the study of flashbulb memory, the Downtown group remembered their 9/11 experiences more ____ and ______ and gave _____ and ____ descriptions as compared to the Midtown group. The Downtown also showed much greater activity in the ______, but decreased activity in the _______.

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vividly, confidently; longer, more detailed; left amygdala, parahippocampal cortex

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Patients with _____ lesions sometimes cannot remember new events

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hippocampal

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Episodic memory involves the

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medial temporal & frontal lobes

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Semantic memory involves

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lateral temporal frontal lobes

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working memory involves the

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frontal-parietal network

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procedural memory is associated with the

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basal ganglia, cerebellum, and the motor cortex

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conditioning is associated with

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cerebellum, amygdala, and the MTL (?)

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