PSYC 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Caudate Nucleus, Striatum, Cognitive Map
4 Apr 2016
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There are several kinds of memory and learning. Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information, behavior patterns, or abilities, characterized by modifications of behavior as a result of practice, study or experience. Memory: the ability to retain info, based on process of learning or encoding, retention across some interval of time, and retrieval or reactivation of the memory. A patient, who, because of damage to medial temporal lobe structures, was unable to encode new declarative memories. Retrograde amnesia: difficulty in retrieving memories formed before the onset of amnesia: common. Anterograde amnesia: the inability to form new memories beginning with the onset of a disorder: more uncommon. Short term memory differs from long term memory: henry could repeat a list given to him, but he cannot repeat the list after a few minutes. Memory deficits were caused by loss of the hippocampus. Bilateral hippocampal lesions in laboratory animals seemed not to produce widespread memory deficits.
