Psychology 3224A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Echoic Memory, Mammillary Body, Neocortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3224A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Hampson

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Lecture 7 temporal lobe and diencephalon in memory. Declarative memory: also known as explicitly memory, shit that you can say or declare, often subdivided into semantic and episodic memory. Procedural memory: also (cid:272)alled (cid:862)i(cid:373)pli(cid:272)it(cid:863) (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory, memory for learned motor skills, classical conditioning, habituation, sensitization, priming etc. Patient pb: civil engineer who got a left temporal lobectomy for seizure control, developed amnesic syndrome similar to hms because he had a non-functional right hippocampus. In both hm and pb, there was a selective impairment in declarative memory with a severe anterograde amnesia and graded retrograde amnesia: evidence that declarative memory is separate from procedural or short-term memory. I(cid:374)itially, this (cid:449)as (cid:272)alled (cid:862)(cid:373)edial te(cid:373)poral lo(cid:271)e a(cid:373)(cid:374)esia(cid:863) Mussels case: a canadian case in which people ate shellfish that was contaminated with domoic acid, domoic acid: selectively destroys one subtype of glutamate-responsible neurons that are densely expressed in the hippocampus.