Memory and Learning Flashcards
1
Q
Names, representation theory
A
Churchland and Sejnovski
2
Q
What are representations?
A
Patterns of activation between neurons
3
Q
What determines the storage of these representations?
A
The weight of the connections: the strength of the connections between neurons.
4
Q
Which kinds of memory are not affected in amnesiac patients?
A
Procedural (How to brush your teeth)
5
Q
Stages of memory creation and parts of the brain involved
A
- Encoding phase - sensory cortexes and Hippocampus (hippojournalist)
- Storage phase - sensory cortexes have the data appropriate to their senses, but it’s the hippo that can take the data and put it together (hippolibrarian)
- Retrieval phase - Hippoindex
(4) . Remote memories: No need for hippoindex anymore!
6
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role of the hippo
A
hippojournalist,
hippoindex(hippolibrarian)
hippomap