PSY260H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Frontal Lobe, Episodic Memory
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Hippocampus and surrounding areas: consolidation of declarative memories. Hippocampus is critical for acquiring new episodic memories. H. m is able to form new semantic memory after lab study. E. p"s damage is even worse, and he is not able to demonstrate new semantic information at all. Mtt: true episodic memories are never fully independent from the hippocampus, meaning that you need hippocampus for retrieval. Also, after mtl damage, the remaining memory after incidents are semantic memory instead of true episodic memory. If damage the frontal cortex: have problem of source memory. Opiates provide information about liking that stimulate the vta"s wanting system. Skill memories: perceptual motor skills and cognitive skills. (most skills involve both) Practice: paced out, mix of skills, bot too frequent feedbacks. Alysia habituation: if you touch the siphon many times, then there are fewer glutamate released. This is called the synaptic depression. (less glutamate). For habituation: weaker stimuli work better than the strong stimuli.
