NEUR30003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cerebral Cortex, Rodent, Granule Cell

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR30003
• Professor: Peter

Document Summary

Lecture 9. 1 memory modules for time place and space. Getting people to learn novel things learn list of nonsense syllables -> test recall. Immediate recall is high retention -> forgetting curve. Lashley 1950 in search of the engram. Find out where in the brain a memory is. Engram: change in the brain that now represents some bit of info that you didn"t have previously. Spatial memory: ways we navigate dead reckoning: calculating one"s current position by using a previously determined position and advancing based on known speeds over time, follow the steps of distance and duration, example: navigating at sea. Accruing lots of information from dead reckoning. Strong evidence for specific functional location of a type of memory in a brain sub-region cam for human neurophysiology patient h. m. Showed that the hippocampus is essential for the consolidation of explicit episodic memory. Lost his capacity to learn and remember new information.