ANAT 321 Lecture 32: Learning and Memory
4 Dec 2016
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The frontal lobes are important for learning: but what they"re especially important for is the kind of learning that enables you to learn patterns and rules, e. g. gambling test, also brain circuitry that"s specifically involved in memory formation. Explicit memory - conscious memory of facts, events: names of people, visual memory, declarative, episodic, episodic memory may be relatively unique to humans, but there are some animals that exhibit some form of episodic memory. Implicit memory - skills, habits, classically conditioned responses. Learning habits - some things become automated over time: classical conditioning - doesn"t really involve conscious memory recall. Explicit and implicit memory are mediated by separate brain circuits. Explicit memory --> conscious memory of facts (semantic) and event (episodic) --> hippocampus, temporal lobe, cerebral cortex. Implicit memory --> skills, habits, classical conditioning, etc. -> basal ganglia, cerebellum: probably some regions of the cortex as well.
