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What did patient HM suffer from?

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Refractory seizures

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On 01/09/53 what did William Scoville perform on HM?

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Bilateral temporal lobectomy

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What are the important site for the generation of the seizures?

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Amygdala

Temporal lobe

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What brain regions did William Scoville perform the surgery on?

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Amygdala
Entorhinal cortex
Hippocampus

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What was the surgery successful in?

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Treatment of epilepsy

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What did HM know up until 2 years before his surgery?

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Who he was
How to do things 
Personal history 
Facts learned in school
Language 
Social events 
People
Almost everything
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HM short term memory was intact, what could he no longer form?

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Long term memories

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What are intimately linked?

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Learning and memory

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What is learning?

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The process of acquiring knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught

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What is memory?

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The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information

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What is memory?

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The outcome of learning

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What is learning all about?

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Changing behaviour
Improving self
It is a survival advantage

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What does survival advantage of learning and memory teach?

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Avoid situations that you find dangerous

Seek those that were previously beneficial

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What does all form of learning and memory involve?

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Cellular and circuitry changes in the nervous system

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What can memory be?

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Very short-lived
Short-to-medium lived
Long term

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Very short lived

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Sensory memory (msec-sec)

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Short-to-medium lived

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Short term memory and working memory (sec-min)

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Long-term

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Long-term memories (days-years-decades)

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What are the 3 major processing stages that sustain learning and memory?

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Encoding
Storage
Retrieval

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What is encoding?

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The processing of information that creates a memory trace for storage

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What are two divisions of encoding?

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Acquisition - sensory stimuli make the cut into STM

Consolidation - changes in brain stabilise memory over time resulting in LTM

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What is storage?

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Result of acquisition and consolidation

Represents the permanent record of information

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What is retrieval?

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Accessing stored information

Create conscious representation or execute a learned behaviour

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What are the properties of declarative memories?

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Conscious
Verbal
Holistic
Contextual

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What is the key structure of the medial temporal lobe?
Hippocampus
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Where does the cortical projections terminate ?
Parahippocampal cortex
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What are regions associated with medial temporal lobe?
``` Hippocampus Entorhinal cortex Perirhinal cortex Parahippocampal cortex Mammillary bodies Anterior thalamus nuclei ```
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Where are the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus connected through?
Fornix
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When the information leaves through the fornix where does it go to?
Subcortical structures
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What are the subcortical structures?
Thalamus Mammillary bodies Basal forebrain
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What was thought previously of memory?
Could not be separated from perceptual and intellectual functions
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What was HMs problem?
Purely a memory problem
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What did HM have?
``` Normal intelligence Normal perceptions No motor dysfunction No language impairment No psychological or mental illness Normal cognitive control Normal working memory Normal short term memory Normal procedural learning ```
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What does the extent of memory deficit depend on?
How much of the medial temporal lobe have been removed
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What results in severe amnesia?
Only bilateral resection
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What is digit span memory?
Store short term digits
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What is the digit span for most individual?
Between 7+-2
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What does reversed number decrease with?
Age
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What was disrupted in HM?
Transfer of information from short-term storage to long-term memory which is disrupted
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What is anterograde amnesia?
The loss of memory for events and knowledge that occur after brain damage
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What is Retrograde Amnesia?
The loss of memory for events and knowledge that occurred before brain damage
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What is temporal gradient or Ribots Law?
The most recent memories is lost
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What things could HM and other patients with anterograde amnesia learn?
``` Motor skills Procedure Perceptual skills New concepts World knowledge ```
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What does short-term memory include?
Sensory memory Short term memory Working memory
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What is sensory memory?
The transient retention of sensory information in sensory structures
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What is short term memory?
Short-term stores for information about the world
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What is working memory?
Storing, focusing attention on and manipulating information for a relatively short period of time
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What is the auditory verbal information presented as?
Sort of echo in head
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What is Echoic memory?
Persistence of the auditory sensory memory trace
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What is Iconic memory?
Persistence of the visual sensory memory trace
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How can sensory memory trace be measured by?
Event-related potential (ERP) | Event-related field (ERF)
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What is the event-related potential?
Measures brain response that is the direct result of a specific sensory,cognitive or motor event
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What does the auditory stimuli leave in the auditory system?
A trace that affects the processing of subsequent stimuli
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What is the mismatch negative a difference between?
Deviant and normal standard stimulus
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How long does the memory trace of auditory stimuli last for?
9-10 seconds
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What happens after 10 seconds?
The brain is free to process another secondary stimulus
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What does the echoic memory have a time course of?
Around 10 seconds
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What is neural trace of visual stimulus?
Only 300 to 500 msec
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Sensory memory
Relatively high capacity (can retain a lot of information | For a very short period
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Short term memory
A more limited capacity | Longer time course (sec to min)
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Who studied the capacity of short term memory?
George Miller
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What is capacity (span)?
Quantity of information can be held in memory
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What is attention?
To move information from sensory to short term memory (STM)
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What is rehearsal?
To move information from short term memory (STM) to long term memory (LTM)
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What is retrieval?
To move information back into short-term memory (STM) from the long term memory (LTM)
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What does the short-term memory store?
Approximately 7+/-2 items in an acoustic code for 15-30 seconds
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What is displacement?
New information comes along and pushes the old information out
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What is decay?
Information simply fade away
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What is central executive?
Drives the whole system and allocated data to the subsystems The phonological loop Visuospatial sketchpad Deals with cognitive task: mental arithmetic and problem solving Manages attention Coordinates interaction between two short term memory stores and with long term memory
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What is the visuospatial sketch pad (inner ear)?
Stores and processes information in a visual or visuospatial code
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What is the phonological loop?
Part of working memory | Deals with spoken or written material
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What are the two parts of the phonological loop?
``` Phonological store (inner ear) Articulatory control process (inner voice) ```
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What is the phonological store?
Linked to speech perception Holds information in a speech based form (spoken words) for 1-2 seconds Short lived acoustic store for sound input and any visually presented language converted by articulatory control process
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What is the articulatory control process?
Linked to speech production | Used to rehearse and store verbal information from the phonological store
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What does the visuospatial sketchpad depend on?
Integrity in both hemispheres
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What does phonological loop depend on?
Integrity in left hemisphere
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Lesion in either LEFT hemisphere
``` Lateral frontal lobe Brodmann area 44 (Broca’s area) Inferior parietal love Left supramarginal gyrus Brodmann area 40 ```
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Lesions in either RIGHT or LEFT hemisphere
deficit in visuospatial working memory
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What are examples of right/left hemisphere
``` Anterior occipital cortex (Extrastriate cortex) Broadmann Rea 19 Inferior posterior parietal lobe Supramarginal gyrus Broadmann area 40 ```
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Where did KF suffer brain damage?
Left posterior parietal brain area from a motor cycle accident Damaged his short term memory
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What happens when there is no frontal cortex?
Information cannot be held
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What requires an intact medial temporal lobe?
Acquiring new declarative memories
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What was not used during HM surgery?
Ferromagnetic materials
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Half of the posterior region of H.M. hippocampus was...
Intact
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How much of the medial temporal lobe have been removed?
Only 5cm
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What was mostly spared?
The posterior parahippocampal gyrus
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What was removed?
Anterior portions of the parahippocampal gyrus | Most of the perirhinal and most or all of the entorhinal cortices
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How did patient R.B lose his memory?
After an ischemic episode during heart bypass surgery (1968)
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What did patient R.B have?
Dense anterograde amnesia | Mild temporal retrograde amnesia
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With R.B what appeared to be intact?
Hippocampus
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Where did R.B have a very specific lesion restricted to?
CA1 pyramidal cells
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What is particularly vulnerable to injury?
CA1 subfield of the hippocampus
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What is crucial for the formation of new long term memories?
Hippocampus
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What can Amnesia be caused by?
``` Lesions in regions connected to, but outside of, the medial temporal lobes Stroke Tumour Trauma Metabolic problems ```

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