PSY 358 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gria1, Morris Water Navigation Task, Solitary Nucleus

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 358
• Professor: ryan parsons

Document Summary

Learning and memory notes test #2 april 3rd (7 lectures) To discuss: linking molecules to memory, behavioral and brain methodologies that are used. Behavior is the window to the memory trace. *diagram*-slide 13: all experimental investigations of memory require a training phase to establish a memory and a test phase to detect the memory, the existence of a memory trace is inferred when the training experience influences behavior. To study memory, neurobiologists can: damage a particular region of the brain. Inject drugs into the brain that are designed to influence some aspect of neural function: modify the dna to increase or decrease the expression of some molecule. Any of these treatments in principle could influence behavior by affecting some component process other than memory. Thus, this possibility must be ruled out by other experiments. Memory traces can differ on at least 3 dimensions: duration, state, vulnerability to disruption.