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Learning outcomes

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Reading chapter

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What is declarative memory?

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Expliciti
Facts and events

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What is nondeclarative memory

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Implicit
Procedural memory - motor skills, habits, emotional responses (amygdala), skills (striatum), classical conditioning

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Is procedural declarative or nondeclarative memory?

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Nondeclarative memory

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What are the 2 types of procedural memory ?

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  • Nonassociative learning
  • associative learning
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What are the 2 types of nonassociative learning?

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Nonassociative learning is when you get used to something after being exposed to it many times.

  • Habituation
  • Sensitisation
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What are 2 classic types of associative learning?

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Behaviour altered by formation of associations
between events

  • Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
    – Pairing of unconditional stimulus with
    conditional stimulus

Instrumental conditioning (Thorndike)
– Associate a response with a meaningful
stimulus

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Classical conditioning - Dwight - the office

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TYpes of declarative memory

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What is working memory?

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Temporary storage - lasting seconds

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What is short term memories?

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Vulnerable to disruption
- Facts and events
- Subset are converted to l ong-term memories

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What are long-term memories?

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Recalled for months or years

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Memory consolidation - yankee doodle

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What are the 5 different types of amnesia?

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  • Amnesia- pathophysiology influenced
  • Limited amnesia (common) caused by trauma
  • Dissociated anmensia
  • Retrograde amnesia
  • Anterograde amnesia
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What is retrograde amnesia?

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Memory loss for things prior to brain trauma
Retro = past

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What is anterograde amnesia

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Inability to form new memories after brain trauma
Antero = forward

50 first dates

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Amnesia produced by brain trauma

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Working memory slide

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What is transient global amnesia?

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Sudden onset of anterograde amnesia
- lasts short periods from temporary ischemia
- Attacks last a couple of hours

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Prefrontal cortex highly associated with working memory

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What lobe would relate to deficits in:

  • Disinhibition
  • Altered personality
  • lack of empathy
  • socially inappropriate behaviour
  • Reactive aggression
  • Impaired ‘mind theory’
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Orbitofrontal cortex

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What lobe would relate to deficits in:

  • Decreased motivation
  • apathy
  • akinesia
  • impaired detection of mismatches or errors
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Medial prefrontal cortex

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What lobe would relate to deficits in:

  • Reduced attentional control
  • perseveration
  • impaired executive functions
  • Working memory, sequencing, planning, creativity, reasoning
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Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

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Tower of Hanoi classic test (forward thinking) dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

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Classic dmPFC Wisconsin card sorting test - forward thinking

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The stroop test

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2 different working memory tasks
Location
Blue = visual memory
Red = spacial memory
Green = visual and spacial memory cross over

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What cortical area is associated with guiding eye movements and stimulation causing saccades?

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Lateral intraparietal cortex (LIP)

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What is Hebb’s “Cell assembly” hypothesis?

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  • External events are represented in cortical areas
  • Cells reciprocally interconnected - reverberation
  • Simultanesously active neurons = cell assembly
  • Consolidation by growth process
  • Fire together, wire together
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Hebb’s Cell assembly hypothesis

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Important structures for memory

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What are the lobes critical for the consolidation and storage of declarative memories?

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The medial temporal lobes

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KNOW - the information flow through the medial temporal lobe

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What is caveat?

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complex sensations reported by minority of patiens, all with abnormal brains (epilpsy)

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What did penfield’s electrical stimulation of the human temporal lobes induce?

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Sensations like hallucinations or recalling past experiences

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Temporal lobe amnesia

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What did delayed match-to-sample and delayed non-match to sample (DNMS) tests show about the amydala and hippocampus?

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That they are not significantly involved in recognition memory

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What are the critical structures for memory consolidation?

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Medial temporal lobe structures

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The diencephalon and memory processing

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Case study

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What is Korsakoff’s syndrome?

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Based on chronic alcoholism and thiamin deficiency

SYmptoms: confusions, confabulations, severe memory impairment, apathy

Can lead to dorsomedial thamaus and mammillary body lesions

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what does the hippocampal system do in memory functions

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  • Memory formation, retention, retrieval
  • memory consolidation
  • spatial memory of location of objections (behvaioural importance)
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What do place cells do?

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Fire when yu’re in a particular location in relation to the cell

A) place cell
B) grid cell

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What do grid cells do?

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Responds at multiple locations that form a hexagonal grid

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What do grid cells and place cells do?

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Show sensitivity for head direction to brain higher regions for spatial naviation

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grid cells are likely in what cortex?

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Entorhinal cortex

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Effects on hippocampal lesions in rats

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What are 5 key hippocampal functions beyond spatial memory?

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  • Working memory
  • Integrates and associates sensory input
  • Odour discrimination
  • Links different experiences together
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What are engrams?

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What do reconsolidation experiments show in memory?

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Recalling a memory makes it susceptible to change

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Procedural memory

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What is the key area involved in habit learning and procedural memory?

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striatum

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What are the 2 structures that make up the striatum?

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caudate nucleus + putamen = striatum

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Where does thr striatum get it’s input from?

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frontal and parietal cortex

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Where is the output from the striatum?

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thalamic nuclei and movement associated cortical areas

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The striatum and procedural memories in rats

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Lesions in the striatum disrupt _________ memory but not ____________ memory

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procedural
BUT NOT DECLARATIVE MEMORY

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Where is declarative memory (facts and events) associated with?

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Medial temporal lobe (MT)
Diencephalon

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What type of conditioning is nondeclarative memory associated with?

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Classical conditioning
eg musculoskeletal (cerebellum)
Emotional responses (amydala)

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Is procedural memory declarative or non-declarative?

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Nondeclarative

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What is procedural memory?

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Skills, habits and behaviours
(piano, tie shoes etc, riding bycicle)

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Where is procedural memory associated with?

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Striatum

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Nondeclarative memory is also frequently called___________ memory, because it results from direct experience

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implicit

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declarative memory is often called____________ memory, because it results from more conscious effort.

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explicit

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Another distinction is that______________ memories are often easy to form and are easily forgotten. In contrast, forming__________ memories usually require repetition and practice over a longer period of time, but these memories are less likely to be forgotten.

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declarative
nondeclarative

Think of the difference between memorizing the names of people you meet at a party (declara- tive) and learning to ski (nondeclarative)

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what are 2 types of Nonassociative learning?

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Habituation and sensitization

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What is nonassociative learning?

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change in behavioral response that occurs over time in response to a single type of stimulus.

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What is habituation learning?

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habituation, is learning to ignore a stimulus that lacks meaning
E.g. noise outside

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What is sensitization learning?

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intensifies your response to all stimuli

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What is associative learning?

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Associative learning is when you learn that one thing is connected to another, like hearing a bell and knowing it’s time for dinner.

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What 2 types of learning are associative learning?

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Classical conditioning
Instrumental conditioning

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What is classical conditioning?

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Classical conditioning
Dog and bell association with food

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What is instrumental conditioning?

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where a behavior becomes more or less frequent depending on whether it’s followed by a reward or a punishment.

For a 10-year-old: Imagine if you get a gold star every time you clean your room, so you start cleaning it more often. That’s because you learned that cleaning leads to a reward (the gold star). But if you lose a toy every time you shout, you might shout less. That’s because you learned that shouting leads to something you don’t want (losing a toy).

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A second, entirely distinct form of temporary storage, lasting on the order of seconds, is __________________.

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working memory

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If amnesia is not accompanied by any other cognitive deficit, it is known as __________amnesia (i.e., the memory problems are dissociated from any other problems).

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dissociated

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What is LIP?

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lateral intraparietal cortex

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What is this area of the brain associated with?

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facial identity and spatial location
Dorsomedial pFC and cingulate cortex

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The delayed-saccade task.

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Hebb and the Cell Assembly.

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What is an engram or memory trace?

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the location of a memory

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DRAW THIS OUT

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The hippocampus

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what 5 Structures in the medial temporal lobe are involved in declarative memory formation?

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  1. Hippocampus
  2. Entorhinal cortex
  3. Rhinal sulcus
  4. Perirhinal cortex
  5. Parahippocampal cortex
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DRAW THIS OUT

A
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Input first reaches the ________and parahippocampal cortex before being passed to the hippocampus

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rhinal

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A major output pathway from the hippocampus is the _________, which loops around the thalamus before terminating in the hypothalamus

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fornix

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What does the fornix do?

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connects the hippocampus with the mammillary bodies in the hypothalamus

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What do mammillary bodies do?

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send a strong projection to the anterior nuclei of the thalamus.

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The dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus also receives input from temporal lobe structures, including the _________ and____________ neocortex, and it projects to virtually all of the frontal cortex.

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amygdala
inferotemporal (IT)

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what is Korsakoff’s syndrome associated with?

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Chronic alcoholism

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In addition to place cells in the hippocampus, recordings in rodents have identified neurons in the entorhinal cortex that are called _____ cells

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grid

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However, unlike place cells, grid cells respond when the animal is at multiple locations that form a__________- grid

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hexagonal

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Grid cells are organized topographically in the sense that the size of and distance between grid fields increased from _______ to________.

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dorsal
ventral

Moreover, cells maintained firing relationships from one envi- ronment to the next, suggesting that we were on track of a universal type of spatial map, a map whose activity pattern in many ways disregarded the fine details of the environment.

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the_________ cortex provides input to the hippocampus.

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entorhinal

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What is the ________ theory proposed by O’Keefe and his colleague Lynn Nadel, which states that the hippocampus is specialized for creating a spatial map of the environment?

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cognitive map

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Hippocampus and memory summary

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91
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Two models of memory consolidation.

Youtube??

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Two elements of the basal ganglia are the __________ and the___________, together called the striatum.

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caudate nucleus
putamen

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The striatum sits at a key location in the motor loop, receiving input from ________ and________ cortex and sending output to thalamic nuclei and cortical areas involved in movement.

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frontal
parietal

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lesions to the ___________lobe significantly impair performance on the delayed non-match to sample task that uses declarative memory.

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medial temporal

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When the striatum is damaged, there is no effect on the performance of the DNMS task? True or false

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true

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When the striatum is damaged, the animal is unable to form the habit of always retrieving food associated with one visual stimulus rather than another. T/F?

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true

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