PSYC 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mortimer Mishkin, Entorhinal Cortex, Parahippocampal Gyrus

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

Document Summary

There are many specialized areas in the brain to process different types of information and integrate them: visual (primary: occipital, auditory (primary: dorsal temporal, somatosensory (primary: parietal, spatial (primary: parietal) The maintenance of information is processed in our brains. Experiences have to be stored, meaning a physical record of them must be left. Hm"s case tells us that if you lose the entorhinal cortex, the amygdala and the hippocampus, you can"t store new information: we need animal models to know to what structure the amnesia is due to. Mortimer mishkin and visual discrimination: show monkey 2 objects, and associate one with a reward, eventually, monkey learns to choose the object with a reward. But hm lesion monkey (a+/h+) learn this fine. What is going on: obviously, some aspect of learning is not dependent on the medial ventral temporal lobe. Similarly, hm could do the mirror drawing test and learn it. Memory is not a uniform process many memory systems.