PSYC 311 Lecture 14: PSYC 311 Lecture 14

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 311
• Professor: Michalakis Petrides

Document Summary

The parahippocampal gyrus surrounds the cingulate gyrus and passes under the rostrum of the. The fornix is a pathway that comes out of the hippocampus, moves up and around and splits in two branches: branch 1: mb (mammillary bodies, branch 2: septum. Pes of hippocampus: where it turns upwards. Rhinal cortex: entorhinal cortex: the rhinal sulcus and cortex that covers pes and amygdala, perirhinal cortex: cortex around entorhinal cortex. The hippocampus is critical creating long-term declarative memory: connects to thalamus (the gatekeeper of the cortex) to influence output going to cortex, there is a branch of the fornix that goes to the thalamus. Long-term memory is thought to be formed by changes in synaptic plasticity of circuits associated with processing the memory. A lot of input to and from hippocampus via entorhinal cortex. Think of it: you need to process new visual information in visual streams first, ventral stream entorhinal cortex hypothalamus and amygdala.