Learning and Memory Flashcards
Memory consolidation
Transforming short term into long term
What are the two types of long term memory?
Declarative (explicit) for what
Procedural (implicit) for how
Two types of declarative memory?
Semantic: lang, facts, general knowledge
Episodic: events, experiences
Retrograde amnesia
Losing events before the trauma
Anterograde
Cannot form new memories after the trauma
Anterior pole of the temporal lobe
semantic memory convergence
caudal medial temporal lobe
episodic memory
Where is semantic memory stored?
cortex
Where is episodic memory stored?
rhinal cortex and hippocampus
amygdala enhances memory with emotion
Spatial navigation memory
hippocampus
The papez circuit is associated with what
explicit, episodic memory
How is procedural memory created?
Repeating an activity over and over again until it is automatic
Associated with basil gingival and cerebellum
What area is associated with short-term memory?
telencephalon
Where does Alzheimer’s damage start?
caudal medial temporal lobe
Hebb proposed an internal representation of an object consists of what?
Cortical cells activated by an external stimulus called a cell assembly
