Memory Flashcards
The _____ is the facilitation of a circuit of synapses that is activated by an experience or thought.
neuronal basis of memory
Repeated activation of the circuit can change its ______ to make it easier to activate
membrane potential, biochemicals and anatomy
Wernicke’s area for meanings of words, temporal cortex for the memories of objects and faces etc.
short term storage in hippocampus and related structures
declarative information
Cerebellum, basal ganglia, premotor cortex, and other sites related to motor behavior
short term memory storage unknown but presumably widespread
nondeclarative information
Working memory takes place in the _____
prefrontal cortex
_____ receptors help to regulate working memory
Dopamine and D1
Long term memory “files” a memory away in the _____ for future retrieval
associative cortex
refers to the inability to create new memories (caused by trauma especially to the hippocampus CA1 Region)
Anterograde
refers to the inability to recall memories before onset of amnesia (caused by trauma to brain areas other than the hippocampus).
Retrograde
Amnesia usually involves ____ rather than _____ memories
declarative memories rather than procedural
results from a psychological cause, such as the emotional shock of witnessing a violent crime, as opposed to a direct damage to the brain. It can include repressed memories or a psychogenic fugue where a person is confused about his or her identity.
dissociative amnesia
results from long-term alcoholism or malnutrition, especially a deficiency of vitamin B1.
Korsakoff’s syndrome
is the loss of memory about one specific event
Lacunar amnesia
is the common inability to remember events from one’s own childhood
childhood amnesia
is intentionally caused by the injection of an amnesic drug such as a benzodiazepine
drug-induced
