Week 8 memory

Question 1

2 types of declarative memory

Answer 1

semantic (generalised memory) and episodic (autobiographical)

Question 2

Talk about HM

Answer 2

Seizures, central temporal lobes, medial temporal lobotomy, removing medial section of temporal lobes, including amygdala, hippocampus

Preserved STM, some retrograde amnesia, severe anterograde amnesia.

Non-declarative learning performance fine

testing of the delayed non-matching to sample test (declarative) showed peririhinal cortex most involved in declarative memory, hippo = moderate or mild deficits, amygdala not much effect

Question 3

Where do the ‘what’ and ‘where’ parts of information that end up in the hippocampus come from?

Answer 3

what = perirhinal
where = parahippocampal
hippocampus = activates during the processing of associations

Question 4

Describe the differences in requirements for recollection and familiarity

Answer 4

‘What’ and ‘Where’ recollection requires intact hippocampus, whereas familiarity relies more on input from the perirhinal cortex