Cognitive Neuro
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- Definition of memory
- group of mechanisms or processes by which experience shapes is changing brains and behavior
- Name structures of hippocampal region
- hippocampus, dentate gyrus, subiculum, amygdala, parahippocampal, entorhinal and perirhinal cortices
- Name structures of midline diencephalic region
- dorsomedial thalamic nucleus and mammilary bodies
- Ribots law
- more recent memories are more impaired then more distant in retrograde amnesia
- Types of memory tests
- free recall, cued recall, recognition
- Digit span task
- repeating digits, tests working memory- 7+/- 2
- delayed non match to sample task
- animal presented with object - delay - animal presented with old+ new object, needs to chose new object to get reward
- Name skill learning tasks
- mirror tracing, rotary pursuit, mirror reading
- Repitition priming
- prior exposure enhances performance
- which part of brain important fpr working memory
- dorsolateral prefrontal cortex