brain regions summary

Question 1

HIPPOCAMPUS

Answer 1

crucial role in the formation, encoding and consolidation of new long-term explicit memories and their transfer to the cortex for storage.

Question 2

AMYGDALA

Answer 2

involved in emotional reactions (particularly fear and anger) and formation of a wide variety of emotional memories

Question 3

NEOCORTEX

Answer 3

formation, consolidation, storage and retrieval of long-term explicit memories. Long-term explicit semantic and episodic memories are widely distributed throughout the neocortex.

Question 4

BASAL GANGLIA

Answer 4

involved in the generation of voluntary movements and long-term implicit memories involving motor skills

Question 5

CEREBELLUM

Answer 5

involved in formation of long-term motor skill memories and stores implicit memories of simple conditioned reflexes