Memory Flashcards
(42 cards)
Long term memory includes:
- Explicit conscious
- Implicit unconscious
- Emotional conscious and unconscious
Short term memory includes:
Sensory, motor, cognitive
What is amnesia?
The partial or total loss of memory
Structures that were removed during surgery for HM included:
Structures in the medial temporal lobe
HM surgery confirmed the existence of what?
Memory and memory systems
What is infantile amnesia?
Loss of memory for the early years of life
What is fugue state?
Form of memory loss where individuals have no knowledge of their former identity
What is transient global amnesia?
Sudden onset and short course, loss of old memories and inability to form new memories
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
Can produce a transient amnesia similar to transient global amnesia
What is Antero grade amnesia?
Inability to acquire new memories
It is a retro grade amnesia?
Inability to remember old memories
Time-dependent retrograde amnesia:
Severity of injury determines how far back in time the amnesia extends
What are the theories of retro grade amnesia?
- Consolidation theory
- Multiple trace Theory
- Reconsolidation theory
Consolidation theory accounts for the preservation of:
Old memories, as more damage occurs however the more old memories will be lost
What is multiple trace theory?
Three kinds of memory each dependent on a different brain area: auto biographical memory, factual semantic memory, general semantic memory
What is autobiographical memory? (hippo campus)
Subject can describe his or her personal involvement at a particular time and place
What is factual semantic memory? (adjacent Temporel lobe structures)
Subject can recall who is the president or which actor is in a specific movie
What is general semantic memory? (Other areas like cortex)
Memory for knowledge like language that is unrelated to contextual cues
Older memories are more – – – to amnesia because they change location in the brain as they are recalled
Resistant
What is reconsolidation theory?
A memory reenters a labile phase when it is re-called and is then restored as a new memory, results in many different traces for the same event
What is implicit memory? (Aka non-declarative memory)
Unconscious, nonintentional memory i.e. ability to use language to ride a bike play a sport
What is explicit memory?
Conscious, intentional remembering of fact based Symantec memories example 2+2 = 4 and personal or episodic memories like what you did last night
What is emotional memory?
Arousing, vivid, and available on prompting
What is episodic autobiographical memory?
Singular event that a person recalls