PSYC 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Basal Ganglia, Frontal Lobe, Descriptive Knowledge

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

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There will still be conference about frontal lobe next week. Amygdala, part of limbic system important for a ective processing (i. e. process emotional experience) important for emotions of fear and anxiety also important for reward. But monkeys w bilateral mtl lesions still learn vd tasks. Vd task object a and b are present. Monkey learns to always choose a but never b thro feedback and extinction procedural learning (ride a bike, play instrument), not declarative knowledge. Therefore, bilateral removal of mtls can still do these tasks (mishkin) this is testing basal ganglion. Then we need to de ne what we mean by reward learning. Turns out that reward feedback does not require a. Tasks like vd helps animal learn thro reinforcement just how useful an action is, do not require a, just need bg. In vd, one object is rewarded, another is not. simple reward feedback.