PS267 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Temporal Lobe, Memory Consolidation, Semantic Memory
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Lecture 13 memory part 1: the anatomy of memory, memory deficits: amnesia, mechanisms of memory, the medial temporal lobe memory system, memory consolidation, cellular basis of learning and memory. The anatomy of memory: learning = the process of acquiring new information. Focus on how info gets in: memory = the outcome of learning. Different types of memory systems: sensory memory, short term/working memory, long term memory, non-declarative, declarative. Capacity: how many memories can be stored: sensory: unlimited. Storage = represents the permanent record of the information: result of encoding. Retrieval = accessing stored information and using it: components of the medial temporal lobe memory system: Medial temporal lobe region: key to memory: hippocampus, fornix, perirhinal cortex of hippocampus, entorhinal cortex of hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex, mammillary bodies, anterior thalamic nucleus, medial prefrontal cortex. Memory deficits: amnesia: amnesia = memory deficits and loss as a result of brain damage.
