LTM-encoding, retrieval, consolidation Flashcards
the process that transforms new memories from a fragile state to a more permanent, stable state.
Consolidation
Consolidation happens immediately after LTM storage. T/F?
False. Muller and Pilzekcer 1900! Delaying testing by 6min resulted in a 20% performance improvement over no delay.
What are the ways in that consolidation occurs?(2)
Synaptically (structural change, increased firing, Long-term potentiation)
Systemically (neuro circuits reorganizing, takes months or years)
What neural region is involved in consolidation?
The Hippocampus
The main mechanism of consolidation is
Reactivation by the hippocampus
During reactivation, memories are
unstable and open to change until reconsolidation
What happened when researchers paired a shock and a tone
the tone began to elicit the fear response
Injecting a drug that inhibits synaptic changes to the Basal Lateral Amygdala prior to trying to elicit a conditioned fear response resulted in
loss of the response memory due to the interference of the drug during reconsolidation
Neurons that fire apart
wire apart
The process of acquiring information and transferring it into memory.
Encoding
The process of remembering information that has been stored in long-term memory.
Retrieval
Rehearsal that involves repetition without any consideration of meaning or making connections to other information.
Maintenance Rehearsal
What ways to study efficiently are?
Elaborate (give it meaning or associate it)
Generate
Test
Organize (groups, trees)
Space out sessions
When the type of task that occurs during encoding matches the type of task that occurs during retrieval. This type of processing can result in enhanced memory.
transfer-appropriate processing
