The Anatomy of Memory
The part of the brain helps solidify new information into long-term memory and is involved in spatial memory and navigation.
What is the hippocampus?
Memory is lost after a lesion. New information is unable to be learned.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Memories are stored and categorized based on sound.
What is Acoustic Encoding?
True or False: Long term memory has a limited capacity.
False
Radioactive tracers used to observe metabolic processes in the brain, including those related to memory.
What is a PET scan?
Fiber tract that connects the hippocampus to other brain regions, such as the mammillary bodies and the thalamus. It plays an important role in transmitting information related to memory.
What is the Fornix?
Memory is lost for events and prior knowledge that is in someones memory before a lesion.
What is retrograde amnesia?
Memories are stored and categorized based on sight.
What is visual encoding?
What is motor memory?
Provides detailed images of brain anatomy, helping to look at specific structures with memory capabilities and impairments.
What is structural MRI?
Region that includes the hippocampus and surrounding structures. It's crucial for formation of new explicit memories (declarative memory) and plays a role in memory storage.
What is the Medial Temporal Lobe?
Triggered mostly by physical exertion in men and emotional stress in women, causing blood flow to be altered in the brain resulting in new information being unable to be learned.
What is transient global amnesia?
Memories are stored and categorized based on the meaning of information.
What is semantic encoding?
The two types of Explicit Memory.
Looks as brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow, showing which areas are activated during memory tasks.
What is fMRI?