Deep within the brain this structure has a crucial role in the consolidation of most of our memories.
What is the hippocampus?
100
Memory: about 0.2 – 0.4 of a second OR 0.3 of a second.
What is the duration of sensory iconic memory?
100
It is connected to almost all parts of the brain (allows it to take part in almost everything we consciously think, feel and do).
What is the cerebral cortex?
100
Presence of the correct information acts as a cue for its retrieval from memory.
What is recognition?
100
Brain trauma causes loss of memory for information or events after the trauma. Loss of ability to form or store new long term memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
200
Ability of the brain’s neural structure or function to be changed by experience throughout the lifespan.
What is neural plasticity?
200
Required for transfer to short term memory.
What is attention?
200
Part of the brain’s limbic system involved in emotion and various other functions together with the amygdala and other structures.
What is the role of the hippocampus?
200
Known for its use by police to acquire details about a crime and even to identify a perpetrator.
What is an eye-witness testimony?
200
Difficulties learning and remembering the location of objects or places- spatial learning and memory.
What happens when the right hippocampus is removed?
300
Important role in the consolidation of specific types of memories. It can enhance the consolidation of long term memories of emotionally arousing experiences.
What is adrenaline?
300
Is not considered to be a single store for all kinds of information. Different types are associated with different kinds of information and memory processes.
What is long term memory?
300
Classically conditioned emotional responses involve implicit memory because they occur involuntarily in the presence of a relevant environmental stimulus.
What is the role of the amygdala?
300
An active process combining stored information with other available information to form what is believed to be a more coherent, complete or accurate memory.
What is reconstruction?
300
Impaired ability to recognise facial expressions of emotions –fear.
What is the amygdala?
400
Process of making a newly formed memory stable and enduring after learning.
What is consolidation?
400
Memory that occurs when information can be consciously or intentionally retrieved and stated.
What is explicit (declarative) memory?
400
A vivid and highly detailed memory of the circumstances in which someone first learns of a very surprising, significant or emotionally arousing event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
400
‘Misinformation’ provided in leading questions after the event become confused with the details of the original memory.
What is source confusion?
400
Fragments accumulate over time to form clumps of hard, insoluble plaques outside and around the neurons.
What is the protein beta-amyloid?
500
Chemical messengers that are manufactured by neurons and released from axon terminals. They are released into capillaries.
What is a neurohormone?
500
Sometimes called skill, motor, body or muscle memories, typically require little or no intentional or conscious attempt to retrieve.
What is procedural (implicit) memory?
500
Directly involved in encoding and temporary storage of implicit procedural memories.
What is the role of the cerebellum?
500
Most evident when we retrieve an episodic memory of a specific event for which we can’t recall or are uncertain about some of the details, they are often accurate but may contain errors and distortions.
What is reconstructive memory?
500
Look like twisted fibres and inhibit transport of essential substances throughout the neuron which causes failure of the transport system and neurons eventually die.