PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Entorhinal Cortex, Perforant Path, Synaptic Plasticity
11 Mar 2013
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What is learning and memory: learning refers to the process by which experiences change our nervous system. Involve speci c relations between stimuli in the environment. Involve recognition and categorization of objects and situations. Involve skilled actions: memory refers to the process that encodes, stores and retrieves the learning experience. Memories: can be transient or durable, can be consciously (explicitly) declared or involve implicit procedures, have a personal frame of reference, permits a form of time-travel, are not equally vulnerable to disease and disruption. If the siphon is lightly touched, the gill withdraws re exively. In classical (pavlovian) conditioning, a stimulus that previously had. Air puff no effect on behaviour becomes able to evoke a reflexive. In classical (pavlovian) conditioning, a stimulus that previously had no effect on behaviour becomes able to evoke a reflexive. The procedure involves the repeated pairing of two stimuli. learned movements: two major categories of associative learning, classical conditioning.
