NEUR 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Explicit Memory, Striatum, Basal Ganglia

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 2200
• Professor: Matthew Holahan

Document Summary

Multiple process theories: different kinds of memory are stored during different sleep states. Sequential process theories: memory is manipulated in different ways during different sleep states. Storage process theories: brain regions that handle different kinds of memory during waking continue to do so during sleep. Neuroplasticity of the brain: nervous systems potential for physical or chemical change. Learning: a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) a(cid:374) orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)"s (cid:271)ehavior as a result of e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Memory: the ability to recall the previous experience. Memory trace: a mental representation of a previous experience in the brain, presumed to correspond to a physical change in the brain. Short-term memory: few minutes in duration (frontal lobe) Long-term memory: indefinite duration (temporal lobe: declarative. Facts and events of our lives (medial temporal lobe: non-declarative. Simple classical conditioning emotional response (amygdala) or skeletal response. George miller: noted that short term memory can hold about 7 items plus or minus 2 depending on the person (maybe even as few as 4)