Salty bananas Flashcards
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Explicit memory circuit
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Cortices perirhinal cortex/parahippocampal cortex entorhinal cortex hippocampus
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entorhinal cortex
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Located on the medial surface of the temporal lobe; provides a major route for neocortical input to the hippocampal formation; often degenerates in AD
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parahippocampal cortex
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Cortex located along the dorsal medial surface of the temporal lobe.
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perirhinal cortex
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Cortex lying next to the rhinal fissure on the base of the brain.
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What does the medial temporal lobehave to do with spatial navigation?
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Sherry experiments tell us that animals with bigger hippocampi have a higher ability in visuospatial learning
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visuospatial learning
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Using visual information to recall an objects location in space