PSY352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Memory Consolidation, Implicit Memory, Conditioned Taste Aversion
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Both learning and memory have been demonstrated in a wide variety of species. Chimpanzees can learn complex tasks including sign language. Dogs can learn to respond to large number of human signals appropriately. Rats lean to navigate mazes to nd reward. Pigeons learn to peck at the appropriate button to obtain food. Fish can learn to respond to light associated with the shock. Fruit ies can associate odour cues with tapping. Even worms, like the nematode can learn and remember by associative learning with olfactory cues. Learning and memory are crucial and thus had been demonstrated in a wide variety of species. Learning and memory represent a series of processes that allow experience dependent modi cation of behaviour: learning: attending to stimuli, acquiring information about stimuli (associations, memory: consolidation of acquired information, storage of information, recall (retrieval) of information. There are many forms of learning and memory, there are many ways one could classify or categorize these different forms.
