Memory Formation

Question 1

Amygdala

Answer 1

Plays significant role in formation of emotional memories, particularly fear

Involved in transferring new learning into LTM

Question 2

Damage to Amygdala

Answer 2

Unable to acquire conditioned fear response

Question 3

Hippocampus

Answer 3

Consolidation of new declarative memories so they are neurologically stable and long-lasting

Involved in spatial memory (explicit memory for physical location of objects in space)

Question 4

Henry Molaison (Hippocampus)

Answer 4

Bilateral Mesial Temporal Lobectomy to cure epilepsy

Severe anterograde amnesia

Working memory and procedural memory intact

Explicit declarative memories could not be formed

Question 5

Hippocampus Storage

Answer 5

Does not store information

Transfers memories to cerebral cortex for long term storage

Question 6

Cerebellum

Answer 6

Encoding of implicit memories such as procedural memory and classical conditioning

Question 7

Cerebellum Storage

Answer 7

Temporarily stores procedural memories