Class 6 - Memory 2 Flashcards

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Short-term memory

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a storage capacity just after sensory memory

  • Short duration: seconds to minutes
  • Limited capacity: 7 ± 2 items – Miller’s digit test
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Working memory

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all definitions will involve the ongoing maintenance of information

(e.g. a group of components that hold in mind a limited amount of information temporarily in a heightened state of availability for use in ongoing information processing)

TB- limited capacity store for retaining information over the long term (matinetns) and for preforming mental operations on the contents of this store (manipulation)

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esting STM / WM

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Forward span test: repeat back 5 7 9 4 2 6 (STM - holding the digits in mind)
Backward span test: repeat that list backwards (WM - not only hold but also able to manipulate)

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Dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) neurons fire

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during a delay period for a delayed match paradigm
stay active for as long as delay period is

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activity in frontal and parietal regions together
could classify the

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type of stimulus being held in mind

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uncued stimulus shows a

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reduction in representation, but is not gone forever
• So perhaps the level of activity in the PFC doesn’t correspond to maintaining the representation but maybe ongoing selection of what interested in

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Deficits of STM / WM is usually tied to

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information-processing system

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Episodic memory

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Contains information specific to the time and place of acquisition

(in delarative memory)

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Semantic memory

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Facts we know about the world without contextual information

(in delarative memory)

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Quesonare Pic

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Paitent KC

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bilateral damage to hippocampus

could rember semantic but not episodic

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Semantic dementia

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(temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia)

  • Damage to anterior temporal cortex
  • Impaired semantic memory: knowledge of the world drastically impaired
  • Spared episodic memory
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13
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How info is encoded in long term memory

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what and where pathways

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Subsequent memory effect

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items that are remembered during recall are associated with more activity at encoding

• Medial temporal lobe (MTL) is involved in successful encoding

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Remember/know paradigm

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tese where have a specicfic memory vs general idea

rember when vs know that

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16
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Remember

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– can remember personal episode related to the subject

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Know

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have knowledge of what subject is but no specific episodes

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Hippocampal damage as a baby

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Some personal events he could remember, others he only knew about • Greater activation of residual hippocampus when retrieving ‘remembered’ events versus ‘known’ events

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19
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more hippocampal activity for __ compired to familarity

also at ___ only when correctly __

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recolection compaired to familarity

also at retreval only when correctly retreave

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20
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High conficance that (ex. I saw this word)

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a sence of filmarity

actitivy in pererrhinal cortex related to how confident something was there

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Consolidation hypothesis

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  • When just encoded, memories are dependent on hippocampus for retrieval
  • After a while, they become ‘consolidated’ or independent of the MTL (or hippocampus), instead dependent on cortex
  • This explains commonly observed temporal gradients: information not yet consolidated cannot be retrieved once hippocampus is damaged
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Multiple trace theory / Transformation hypothesis

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  • Hippocampus important in retrieval of truly episodic memories
  • Explains flat retrograde amnesia
  • How can this explain commonly observed temporal gradient? • Older episodic memories become ‘semanticized’ and no longer need the hippocampus for retrieval
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23
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Dementia

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an umbrella term for the loss of cognitive function in different domains (including memory) beyond what is expected in normal aging.

24
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most common types of dementia are

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irreversable

and are the result of neurodegenerative disease, vascular disease, or a combination of the two

25
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alzhimers contributes to __ of dementia deseses

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60-70%

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Alzhimers is chartarized by the

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extracellular deposition of aggregated beta-amaloid protines and the intracellular accumalation of neurofibulary tangles

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beta-amaloid protines

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negatively affecting synapse formation and neuroplasticity

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neurofibulary tangles

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aggregations of microtubules associated with hyper-phosphorylated tau protein.

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Pathology of Alzhimers

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first medial tempral lobe structres are affected

second extends to lateral temporal, perietal, and prontal neuocortices

30
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Second most common type of dementia

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Vascular dementia

decreased oxygenation of neual tissue and cell death resulting from ischemis or hemorrhagi infracts, ruptures of small vesicles

50% of Alzhimers mixed with this

31
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sensory meory

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transient retention of sensory information in sensory structures

32
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echotic memory

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hearing sensory memory

33
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isonic memory

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visual sensory memory

34
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how sensory memory is mesured

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mismach negativity MMN (electrical)

mismach field MMF (magentic)

when impurs differ MMN and MMF are genrated

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Modal Model

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information is first stored in sensory memory then iteems selected by attetional processes can move to short term storage and if it is rehersed it goes to long term storage.

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At each stage of the modal model information can be lost by

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decay

interference

or a combination

37
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Demonstrated that short term memory is not the gateway to long term memory

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KF and EE

KF- damage to L perisylvian cortex, reduced diget span, retained ability to form certine types of new long term memories lasting more than a few seconds

EE- tumor in L agnular gyrus, after removal, below normal short term memory but preserved long term memory

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Three part working memory system consits of

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a central executive mechanism - presides over and cordinates interactions between two subcordinate short term memory stores (phenomonlgical loop and visualspatial sketchpad) and long term memory

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Phonological loop

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propsed mechanism for acustacly coding information in WM, is modality specific

40
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Visualspatal sketchpad

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short term memory store that paralls the phonological loop and permits information storage in either purly visaul or visualspatial codes

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lesions of left supramarginal gyrus have deficits in

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phonologcal working memory

cannot hold strings of words in working memory

42
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noncelarative memory

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implicit memory

43
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procedural memory

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required for tasks that include learning motor skills

depends on extesive and repeated experence

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Priming

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type of nondeclarative memory

change in the response to a stimulus or in the ability to identify a stimulus folowing prior exposeure to that simulus

45
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Preceptual priming acts within the

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perceptial representation system (PRS)

  • within this the structure and form of objects and words can be primed
46
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Word priming effects dissapear within ___

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two hours

much longer effects are seen when pictures are the simulus, these are reliably found at 48 weeks

47
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PRS does not rely on

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the medial temporal lobe

48
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Damage to the hippocampus does not impair __ conditioning but does imapir __ conditioning

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delay

trace

49
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Habbituation

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response to an unchaning stimulus decreases over time

50
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Sensatization

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response increases with repeated presentations of the stimulus

51
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__ is actavated when information is correctly recalled

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hippocampus

is not actavated with familaraity

52
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___ are activated durring reconition based on familarity

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left anterior medial parahippoampus gyrus

a regon that correspons to the perirhinal cortex

53
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Binding problem

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how the brain bundels all of of the information

involves where and what

54
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Standard consolidation theroy

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considers the neocortex to be crutial for the storage of fully consoladated long term meories where as the hippocampus plays only a temporary role

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Multiple trace theory

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sugests that long term sores or semantic information rely soly on the neocortex while episodic memory, wether consolidated or not, rely on the hippocampus for retreaval