Brain Structures
Brain structure that is involved in action selection, movement initiation, and goal-directed behavior
What is the basal ganglia
Occupation (and city) that had a positive correlation with hippoocampus size and time spent in their occupation
What are London Taxi Drivers?
Type of memory associated with manipulating information in your mind
What is working memory?
The two types of declarative memory
What is episodic and semantic?
The threat center
What is the amygdala?
Type of amneisa that HM suffered from after having a brain structure removed
The step of processing and forming a memory in the declarative memory process
What is encoding?
What is Dementia?
The brain structure that encodes and consolidates memories
What is the medial temporal lobe?
HM had this part of his brain removed in order to cure his epilepsy
What is the MTL?
The process of getting the needed information from your memory
What is retrieval?
A possible cause of alzheimers characterized by this protein malfunctioning and not being able to transport crucial nutrients
What is the neurofibrillary tau tangle?
Provides awareness of emotion
Phineas Gage and his damage in the _______ gave us important information on emotion/behavior
Prefrontal cortex
The Non-Declarative learning stage that is associated with refining movement and becoming more efficient
What is the associative stage?
Being able to recall what you ate on thanksgiving is a form of what type of memory?
Episodic - Declarative memory
What is the ventral prefrontal cortex?
Rats with lesions in this area could not remember where the platform was in the water tank
What is the hippocampus?
What is skill learning, priming, and conditioning?
These 3 structures in the medial temporal lobe encode and consolidate memory
What is the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and fornix?