Name any of the brain structures that play a major role in learning/memory!
What is the hippocampus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex... etc etc?
100
Long term potentiation takes place in this part of the brain
What is the hippocampus?
100
Process that takes place when short term memories are moved to long term memory
What is consolidation?
200
The two major types of long term memory
What is explicit and implicit memory?
200
The loss of memories prior to a trauma
What is retrograde amnesia?
200
Neurons in this region maintain relevant information during working memory
What is the prefrontal cortex?
200
Memories are formed by the strengthening of _____ between neurons
What are synapses?
200
Name of patient who had anterograde amnesia and repeatedly had the feeling of being awake for the first time
Who is Clive Wearing?
300
The two types of explicit memory
What is episodic and semantic memory?
300
The loss of the ability to understand or express speech
What is aphasia?
300
The part of the brain damaged in both Clive Wearing's and H.M.'s brains
What is the hippocampus?
300
The more a memory is used, the more _____ are formed (the component of a neuron that receives)
What are dendrites?
300
Name of patient that received surgery for his seizures, resulting in his amnesia
Who is H.M.?
400
The two types of implicit memory
What is priming and procedural memory?
400
Memory that is short term and involves the prefrontal cortex
What is working memory?
400
Two parts of the brain involved in implicit memory
What is the basal ganglia and cerebellum?
400
The more a memory is used, the more _____ are made and put INTO the post-synaptic membrane
What are receptors?
400
H.M. could not form long-term memories but could form ________ memories that lasted a long time
What are procedural memories?
500
Draw all the branches from "memory" including all of the types
What is (see diagram from powerpoint)
500
The definition of episodic memory and then the definition of semantic memory
What is "memory for specific personal events and their context" and "factual and general knowledge"?
500
Name one part of the brain that is associated with one of the language disorders
What is the left frontal cortex, left temporal cortex, OR superior temporal cortex?
500
The importance of long-term potentiation
What is "for being able to maintain memories for long periods of time"?
500
Name 3 things that happen during long-term potentiation
What is "more receptors are made & put into the membrane", "more dendrites are formed", "more neurotransmitters are released", "more action potentials"... etc. ?