What does the hippocampus do? Flashcards
What information do cortical areas send to the hippocampus?
Highly processed, multimodal sensory input ‘external world’
What information does the hippocampus send to cortical areas?
formed memory traces to be consolidated
What information does the limbic system and subcortical areas send to the hippocmapus?
Homeostatic emotional and motivational states ‘internal world’
What information does the comissural connections send and receive form the hippocampus?
Other hippocampus half
How can you test object recognition?
delayed non-match to sample
How is a delay non-match to sample test preformed?
Show the object to a monkey; it remembers it and chooses different on to get reinforcement
What does a correct performance in this test mean?
Conscious recognition
What happens when lessions are made to the medial temporal lobe lesions on NMTS?
There is a decrease in the length of time a monkey can remember correctly the object shown
What is the transitive inference in rats testing?
A rats ability to make a transitive inference: if this than that
What does the Morris water maze test in rats?
a rats ability to make a cognitive map of its surroundings
What are place cells?
Cells in the hippocampus that have increased activity when the organism is in a particular place.
What are place feilds?
the special location when a place cell will fire more
