PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Radial Arm Maze, Morris Water Navigation Task, Explicit Memory
27 Oct 2016
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Need forebrain and hippocampus: hippocampal dependent learning. These forms of learning seem to be more cognitively mediated. Hm case study: his hippocampus was destroyed, doesn"t remember configuration of cues, doesn"t encode new episodes, hard time navigating novel situations, can navigate previously learned situations, can do tasks that involve implicit/procedural learning. He learned to do that but had no memory of learning to do it: trying to get cognitive mediation back into psychology of learning was hard. Show that there are tasks that involve cognitive mediation: trace eye blink conditioning. Basic properties: distinction between explicit (mediated/declarative) and implicit (unmediated) learning. Learning doesn"t require any sort of cognition. If you don"t have a good hippocampus then you are unable to do trace. Bad if have alzheimer"s, damage, alcohol abuse conditioning: trace eye blink conditioning, role of the hippocampus. Disrupted in patients with hippocampal damage (clark & squire) If you don"t have a good hippocampus then you cant do trace eye blink conditioning.
