Memory & Learning

Question 1

Dentate Gyrus

Answer 1

Center of declarative memory

Question 2

Procedural Memory

Answer 2

Learned skills like riding bike/playing instrument, etc. Encoded via cerebellar and striatal structures

Question 3

Notable Aspect of Priming

Answer 3

Unconscious

Question 4

Emotional Learning

Answer 4

Form of conditioning based from amygdala, like conditioned taste aversion

Question 5

Distributed Processing

Answer 5

Memory first comes in sensory cortices, then is parsed into separate features and sent to separate but paralellel processing centers

Question 6

NTs and Consolidation

Answer 6

Adrenergic and cholinergic synapses involved with. BetaARs necessary, as well as cholinergic synapses. BetaAdrenergic antagonists and atropine can interfere w/ consolidation

Question 7

Stress and Consolidation

Answer 7

ACTH and cortisol and such appear to increase, but extreme stress erases everything

Question 8

Working Memory Location/NTs

Answer 8

Frontal lobe (makes sense bc executive functions) and DA

Question 9

Theta rhythms

Answer 9

Information shuttling b/w hippocampus and frontal lobes during sleep to consolidate declarative memory

Question 10

Dissociative Amnesia

Answer 10

Repression of memories

Question 11

ABeta Induction of Memory Loss Mech

Answer 11

Binds to PrP, which then binds to coR mGluR5. This activates calcineurin, phosphatase that causes endocytosis of AMPA and decreases activity of NMDA