PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Grid Cell, Jennifer Aniston, Pyramidal Cell
11 Dec 2015
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Learning and memory are neuroplastic processes, they deal with the ability of the brain to change its functioning in response to experience. Learning deals with how experience changes the brain. Memory deals with how these changes are stored and reactivated. H. m case: medial portions of temporal lobes removed for epilepsy treatment. Had inability to form new long-term memories, his short-term anterograde memory was okay. He had global amnesia amnesia for info presented in all sensory modalities however he could form long-term memories for sensorimotor tasks. Retrograde amnesia: can"t remember events before incident. Anterograde amnesia: can"t remember events after surgery. Medial temporal lobe amnesia: mnemonic deficits with preserved intellectual functioning and medial temporal lobe damage. Assumed implicit system was first to evolve because it is simpler. Evolution of explicit memory systems provided for the flexible use of information. Explicit long-term memories come in two verities: semantic memory: general facts of information, episodic memory: particular events of one"s life.
