chapter 10

Question 1

H.M’s operation was a bilateral medial ____ lobectomy

Answer 1

temporal

Question 2

CA stands for cornu ammonia, which is another term for

Answer 2

hippocampus

Question 3

the neurons of the basal forebrain release_____ throughout the neocortex

Answer 3

acetylcholine

Question 4

process by which short term memories are converted to a long term memories is called

Answer 4

consolidation

Question 5

the hippocampus and adjacent ____ gyrus are all cortex

Answer 5

dentate

Question 6

the ____ cortex is a transition area of cortex between the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

Answer 6

subicular

Question 7

the amnesia of alzheimer disease is thought to be associated with degeneration of cholinergic structures of the basal

Answer 7

forebrain

Question 8

just anterior to the hippocampus is another medial temporal lobe nucleus, the ___

Answer 8

amygalda

Question 9

area of cortex between the subicular cortex and the perirhnal cortex is the ___ cortex

Answer 9

entorhinal

Question 10

korsakoffs amnesia seems to be associated with damage to the ____

Answer 10

mediodorsal

Question 11

at the very edge of the cortex is the hippocampal CA __ region

Answer 11

4

Question 12

diagonal brand of Broca and the nucleus baseless of meynert are located just inferior to the ____ commissure

Answer 12

anterior

Question 13

many pyramidal cells of the hippocampus have ___ fields

Answer 13

place

Question 14

the middle layer of the hippocampus is the ___ cell layer

Answer 14

pyramidal

Question 15

HM cannot form new long term ___ memories

Answer 15

explicit

Question 16

Korsakoff’s patients almost always have extensive damage to the structures of the medial

Answer 16

diencephalon

Question 17

bilateral lesions of ___ cortex disrupt object-recognition memory, even when they do not damage the hippocampal formation

Answer 17

rhinal

Question 18

alzheimers disease is ass. with widespread degeneration, and ____ plaques

Answer 18

amyloid

Question 19

together, the ____ the _____ gyrus, and the ____ cortex compose the hippocampal formation

Answer 19

hippocampus. dentate, subicular

Question 20

the ___ plays an imporaqnt role in memory for spatial location

Answer 20

hippocampus

Question 21

HM can form normal ____ explicit memories and normal long term ___ memories

Answer 21

short term. implicit

Question 22

marking the boundary between the enthorhinal cortex an the perirhinal cortex the superior lip of ____ fissure

Answer 22

rhinal