ANAT 321 Lecture 9: 10-LearningandMemory
16 Jan 2018
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Frontal lobes play important role in learning, but they are important in the learning of patterns and rules (rules of the game), what is the general pattern that can be applied over similar instances. There is also a circuitry involved in memory formation. Memory for facts (remember the names, the stuff you learn in class and you can say those things) declarative memory. Episodic memory: you remember things in a chronological sequence in your life. Episodic memory seems to be relatively unique to humans. Doesn"t involve a conscious recall of the memory, the classical conditioning is independent of that. Explicit and implicit memory are mediated by separate brain circuits. Explicit memory conscious memory of facts (semantic) and events (episodic) hippocampus, temporal lobe, cerebral cortex. Implicit memory skills, habits, classical conditioning basal ganglia, cerebellum and some regions of cortex. Famous for her contribution in the discovery of the role of hippocampus in learning and memory, especially with a patient named h. m.
