BIL 268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Anterograde Amnesia, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory
3 Jan 2016
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Declarative memory: facts and events (phone number, birthday); easy to form. Procedural memory: skills or behavior (cooking, swimming); hard to form yet hard to forget (e. g. riding a bicycle) Long term memory: permanent, greater capacity (e. g. september 11th) By memorizing the vents in the short-term memory, it forms a long-term memory. Sensory information can go directly to long-term memory especially in traumatic events. Retrograde: after a traumatic event, the patient still remembers the event. Anterograde: right after a traumatic event, the patient cannot learn new things. Engram- physical location of the memory or where do you restore the memory. He localized food for the rodent for them to find the food before and after brain surgery. A huge portion of the brain was removed in order to see animal behavior. The numbers of mistakes were reported before and after. Learning deficits increased with the size of lesion, and all cortical areas equally contribute to learning and memory.
