PSYCH 3240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Graph Paper, Behavioral Neuroscience, Spatial Memory
10 Oct 2016
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Learning and memory are two ways of thinking about the same thing: Learning deals with how experience changes the brain, and memory deals with how these changes are stored and subsequently reactivated. 11. 1 amnesic effects of bilateral medial temporal lobectomy. H. m. "s memory deficits were instrumental in the achievement of our current understanding of the neural bases of memory. In order to characterize h. m. "s anterograde memory problems, researchers began by measuring his performance on objective tests of various kinds of memory. The results of the first two tests documented. H. m. "s brain was capable of storing long-term memories but that h. m. had no conscious awareness of those memories. Digit span + 1 test illustrated by his performance on the digit span + 1 test, a classic test of verbal long-term memory. H. m. was asked to repeat 5 digits that were read to him at 1-second intervals.
