PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Temporal Lobe, Rhinal Cortex, Explicit Memory
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What if we asked the animal to do the opposite of what its biased to already behave in a way, we present them with something that they become familiar with and that they are already rewarded for. Memory performance after medial temporal lobe lesions: higher numbers means better performance on these tasks. If we lesion just the hippocampus, we see a slight decrease in performance, but there is some evidence of memory. If we damage tissue around the hippocampus (h+, so damage to not just the hippocampus, but also the rhinal cortex or parahippocampal cortex), memory loss becomes more profound. If we extend that lesion more including areas like the amygdala, we start to see memory being completely destroyed: more than the hippocampus deals with memory storage and consolidation, its all the areas around the hippocampus as well. Th q6: what is the name of the test of declarative test in animals, delayed non-matching to sample task.
