CAS PS 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Striatum, Caudate Nucleus, Nucleus Accumbens
7 Aug 2018
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Graybiel"s article: review anatomy of basal ganglia, cortex, caudate and putamen, globus pallidus, thalamus, prefrontal cortex, fronto-striatal loops, bg caudate + putamen + globus pallidus, fronto-striatal loops. Procedural memory: skill memory, motor memory what coaches sometimes call muscle memory , examples include riding a bike, skiing, swinging a baseball bat, tennis racket, etc. Includes things like typing, writing, cutting with a knife and fork, using chopsticks, playing a violin, etc. The striatal habit system in rats: striatum important of acquisition of specific stimulus-response associations, packard and mcgaugh experiments contrasting place vs. Response learning: contrast with eichenbaum experiments examining episodic memory in animals. Packard and mcgaugh: packard and mcgaugh experiments contrasting place vs. Response learning: t-maze rats learn to turn right to get food, rotate maze 180 degrees, do rats respond by making the same movement (turn right) or by going to the same place (turn left)
