synaptic plasticity

Question 1

How can we classify memory

Answer 1

explicit and implicit memory,
explicit- facts and events
implicit-procedural (skills and habits), emotional responses.

Question 2

How do we learn

Answer 2

The response of the brain to environmental events to involves events and involves adaptive changes in synaptic connectivity which will, in turn, alter behavior

Question 3

Outline how memories are formed

Answer 3

There is a group of cells connected to each other called the cell assembly which represents an environmental stimulus internally e.g. a circle. When the stimulus is present these cells are activated and this activation lingers on after the stimulus is removed and Hebbian modification strengthens the reciprocal connections.

Question 4

What are the two rules of synaptic modification

Answer 4

neurons that fire together wire together,

neurons that fire out of sync lose their link