Memory B7 Flashcards
Border or fringe
Limbus
Phrase commonly used to refer to limbic regions and related tracts, but often used incorrectly to suggest a single functional system or to include regions that are not limbic….
Limbic system
_____________ sits medial and ventral to inferior horn
Hippocampus
Seahorse shape of hippocampus is derived from what embryonic development formation?
Folding of cortex
What is the function of the hippocampus?
The brain changes the wiring in order to activate working memory
Memory consolidation
What are some tests of declarative memory?
Who is the U.S president?
What is your home address?
How did you get here for your appointment?
What did you do yesterday? on your last birthday?
Procedural memory tests?
Tennisforehand/ backhand volley
driving manual transmission
Following a routine path through building
Lab tests: read backwards text as if viewed in mirror.
Mirror drawing
Tower of Hanoi disk puzzle
Retrograde/ Anterograde Amnesia
Declarative meomory loss
True/False: hippocampus is necessary for procedural memory.
False: is not, HM improves procedural memory
Memory is stored where?
memory is stored in cortex (important)
Hippocampus is critical for ___________
anterograde memory (important)
Amygdala is not critical for ___________ memory
anterograde memory (important)
___________ is NOT required for memory storage or recall for older events— sparing of oldest memories.
Hippocampus
___________ required for recent info to be permanently stored in cortex, so lesion = retrograde amnesia.
Hippocampus
