memory, HM and the hippocampus

Question 1

what is explicit memory test?

Answer 1

say first word that comes to mind

Question 2

what is implicit memory test?

Answer 2

say first word that comes to mind after seeing list of words

Question 3

what are the three types of memory?

Answer 3

episodic=yesterdays golf outing
semantic= concept of an airplane
procedural= how to give a presentation

Question 4

what are the two types of amnesia and what are they?

Answer 4

retrograde= cannot remember events prior to brain damage
brain damage occurs adn then…
anterograde= cannot later remember events that occur after brain damage

Question 5

what is HM’s background?

Answer 5

died 2008, bilateral removal of hippocampal areas, lesions on both sides to treat severe epilepsy

Question 6

describe HM’s amnesia?

Answer 6

cannot remember someone he met half hour ago, couldnt learn new address

Question 7

HM experiment?

Answer 7

only remembered famous people from before operation

Question 8

what was the spared implicit learning 1 experiment?

Answer 8

motor learning using mirror drawing, gets better with practise but does not remember ever previously doing experiment= has procedural memory

Question 9

what was spared implicit learning 2?

Answer 9

perceptual learning using priming, begin making lots of errors but then improve despite not remembering ever seeing image

Question 10

what was spared implicit learning 3?

Answer 10

short maze to learn, improved performance over time

Question 11

what is korsakoff syndrome?

Answer 11

related to alcohol abuse
vitamin b deficiency
produced anterograde amnesia= implicit memories formed but no explicit memories

Question 12

what does korsakoffs syndrome damage?

Answer 12

dorsomedial thalamic nucelus and mammiliary bodies

Question 13

what is procedural memory?

Answer 13

generally implicit

Question 14

what is declarative memory?

Answer 14

generally explicit