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1
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What causes the brain to change its functioning?

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Experience

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Learning

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How experience changes the brain

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Memory

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how changes are stored and reactivated

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What did Ebbinghaus study

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Retention of nonsense syllables

Consonant-vowel-consonant and all consonants

These have no emotional connotations or past experiences to connect to

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Ebbinghaus - savings score

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relearning ability

you learn forgotten material faster the second time around

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What discoveries did Ebbinghaus make

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primacy and recency effects

curve of forgetting

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Primacy effect

Recency effect

Example of how to eliminate during studying

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Remember things at the beginning better - no prior knowledge can interfere

Later material is remembered better - no post-material can interfere

Mixing up notecards

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Lashley

What did he study and for what purpose

What was his method and how did it work out?

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Studied memory organization

Searched for an engram: memory trace (a map of routes)

Had animals learn a task, then removed parts of the cortex one by one to figure out where memory was stored

He could never find a specific location for the trace

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Describe the parts of the brain involved in memory formation (in general)

How do memories appear to be stored and how are they organized

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Many regions along with the cortex are involved

In cortex, organized in a distributed and meaningless way

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Penfield

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First to use electrical stimulation to directly activate the cortex during brain surgery

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Hebb

Who was he?

What did he believe about STM and LTM

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A student of Lashley

STM is an active process, it’s short, there is no trace or engram, like writing an address on an envelope – no memory beyond

LTM is formed by structural changes in the brain

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What did Hebb believe happened when you learn something?

What did he believe about cell assembly?

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Loops of neurons become interconnected when you learn something - the repeated activation of those loops

Cell assemblies are connected neurons

Must have activation in some cells of assembly for memory

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3 steps to remember something

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Acquire

Retain

Retrieve

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3 stages of memory

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working memory

short term memory

long term memory

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working memory

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info held in for a few seconds - just long enough for you to use it

the brain’s “scratch pad”

involves ACTIVE CONSCIOUS PROCESSING

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Short term memory

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Passive storage + automated subconscious processing

lasts, seconds, minutes, possibly longer

not necessarily manipulated

ex: mental grocery list

holds 5-9 items

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Chunking

How is it useful

What does it do

Example

What brain process is it an example of

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can increase the capacity of STM

organizes items into a familiar and manageable unit

acronyms

example of an executive function of the prefrontal cortex

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Long term memory

What is it

What helps STM info get to LTM

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permanent info storage

repetition (rehearsal) helps transform STM info to LTM

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Working memory: “where” system

What is it involved in

What part of brain

It’s development

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spatial location

dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

develops slowly during year one

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Working memory: “what” system

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object recognition

orbitoprefrontal cortex

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2 types of experimental tasks for spatial working memory

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delayed response task

A not B task

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What happens in a delayed response task

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Put food in a well

Barrier goes up for a view seconds

animal must remember which well food was put in

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A not B task

Who and what

Describe method

Results

What do the results mean

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Piaget

delayed response but for humans

object is moved from A to B; delay; must retrieve

Youngest children would forget object ever moved - begin to start tolerating about 8 - 10 seconds around 1.5 years

This means the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex develops slowly

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What part of the brain is associated with STM?

What does it include?

What does it play a role in?

How is it involved in memory process overall

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Medial temporal lobe

Hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

Memory consolidation

Involved in forming a memory but NOT permanent storage

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Quote by Larry Squire

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May take years for memories to consolidate

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Where is LTM stored and what could this explain developmentally?

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Cerebral cortex

Infantile amnesia (can’t recall events before 3/4 yrs old)

Cortex region for LTM may not even fully develop until later in childhood

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2 distinct mechanisms of memory that depend on what is being learned and remembered

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Procedural and declarative memory

28
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Procedural memory

what is it

another name

examples

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the memory for how to do something even if you’re unaware you’re doing it

implicit memory

Ex: habituation, classical conditioning, mirror tracing….

29
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What parts of brain does procedural memory involved

Examples

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Many cortical areas depending on the task and type of memory being measured (visual priming in visual cortex; motor programs in basal ganglia)

Does NOT involve temporal lobe

30
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What happens in a serial reaction time task

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Push button for corresponding light that appears

Measure time it takes to press button and remember the serial pattern

31
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Declarative memory

what is it like

what is it

what part of brain does it involve

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Explicit and consciously retrievable

An accessible record of previous experiences and familiarity about them

medialtemporal lobe structures

32
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2 types of declarative memory and part of brain that is associated

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episodic - memory of life events; time and place; rich in context (hippocampus)

semantic - memory of facts and general knowledge (entorhinal cortex)

33
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How do mnemonic devices work to make you more likely to remember something

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Helps you become consciously aware of something

Imagery makes it meaningful

34
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Loci used by ancient Greeks

3 steps

How did the ancients use it

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Think of a familiar place

Place items along it’s route

Take mental journey through the place

Used it to help remember long speeches

35
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What procedure did H.M. have done and why

What happened

What was the issue

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bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to control for epilepsy

stopped seizures along with memory

could not transfer memories into LTM

36
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Types of amnesia

What type did H.M have

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retrograde: backward acting; cannot remember past
anterograde: forward acting; cannot make new memories

mild retrograde and sever anterograde

37
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How did H.M. perform on the digit span test

What sense is involved

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could repeat as long as time between learning and recall was within STM capabilities

38
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Block-tapping memory span test

How did H.M perform

What sense is involved

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9 blocks; psych touches sequence then you have to repeat

Could never go beyond 5 blocks

Involves vision

39
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What does it mean to say that tests showed H.M.’s amnesia was global

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Amnesia was present in all sensory modalities

40
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How did HM perform in mirror drawing task

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improved with practice even though he couldn’t remember previous trials

41
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Rotary pursuit task HM performance

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Pen on “record player”

improved but couldn’t remember ever doing it before

42
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what happened when H.M. learned a response via classical conditioning

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CR still expressed years later….never remembered learning it

43
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3 scientific contributions of H.M.’s case

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  1. MTL is involved in memory
  2. STM & LTM are seperate (he was unable to move things from one to the other - consolidation problem)
  3. Memories may have existed they just weren’t recalled (like when he showed improvement on skills he couldn’t remember learning)
44
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What plays a role in binding memories?

A

PKMZeta

45
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3 tests/examples of implicit memory

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visual priming

word priming

mixed up letters

46
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How have others expressed mediotemporal lobe amnesia?

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Not all unable to form new explicit memories

Semantic memory may function normally while episodic doesn’t - can learn facts just not when they did it

Both are declarative and consciously retrievable

47
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Skinner

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Operant responses that are rewarded are more likely to be repeated

48
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Nature of responses and repititions

Nature of survival

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Repeated if associated with positive emotions, not if negative

Survival depends on doing rewarding things and avoiding hurtful or scary behavior

49
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Korsakoff’s syndrome

Who is it mostly seen in

What causes it

Symptoms

Damaged locations

A

Alcoholics

Loss of vitamin B1 (thiamine)

Amnesia, confusion, personality changes, physical problems

Medial diencephalon and frontal cortex (medial thalamus and medial hypothalamus)

50
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How are Korsakoff’s syndrome and MTL amnesia similar and different

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Early stages: anterograde amnesia for episodic memories

Later: severe retrograde amnesia

Progressive amnesia

51
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How does Alzheimer’s disease first appear

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slight memory loss (dementia)

52
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Defecits predementia AD

types of amnesia with what kind of memory

Memory deficits

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major anterograde and retrograde amnesia in tests of explicit memory

deficits in STM and some implicit memory tasks - both verbal (digit span) and perceptual (fill-in-the-blanks)

53
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What remains intact with AD

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Implicit sensorimotor memory (swinging baseball bat)

54
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Where is AD damage found (3)?

What do these changes specifically do?

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Basal forebrain degeneration (nucleus basalis) - decreases acetylcholine bc it is produced here

MTL

Prefrontal cortex (causes personality changes)

55
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What is likely the response for amnesia in people with AD?

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Acl depletion and brain damage

56
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Types of posttraumatic amnesia

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Concussions

Comas

57
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Amnesia in concussions

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May cause retrograde amnesia for before the blow

Some anterograde for after

58
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Amnesia in comas

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severity of amnesia correlates with duration of coma

59
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What does a period of anterograde amnesia suggest for posttraumatic events

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a short period of time where memory consolidation fails

60
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Electroconvulsive shock treatment

What is it used to treat

What does it cause

How does it work

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severe depression

causes loss of memory mostly for recent events (LTM remains intact)

Induces seizures in temporal lobe and probably disrupts the hippocampus

61
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reconsolidation

When is memory in STM susceptible to posttraumatic amnesia

T or F all memories are subject to consolidation

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every time a memory is retrieved from the LTM it is held in STM for a little bit

Until it is reconsolidated

False

62
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What did Arsen et al. (2012) find in their study?

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Disruption of reconsolidation erases a fear memory trace in the human amygdala

63
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place cells

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cells that respond when you are in a particular place

64
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The role of hippocampus with ______ memory

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spatial location

hippocampectomy produces deficits in radial arm maze

65
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2014 Nobel Prize winners

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O’Keefe Moser and Moser

place and grid cells

66
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James McGaugh

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The amygdala modulates emotional arousal via connections to hippocampus which can actually influence memory

(we best remember things with strong emotional content)

67
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Cerebellum and memory

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stores memories of sensorimotor skills

Ex: conditioned eye blink

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