PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Caudate Nucleus, White Matter, Hackney Carriage
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In an fmri study during encoding of faces, numbers, and snowflakes, that"s when you see a difference: Increased volume in caudate nucleus (a structure implicated in skill learning and obsessive compulsive disorder) and temporal lobe: leport et al. , (2012) 11 participants hsam (highly superior autobiographical memory, autobiographical memory test (atm) Personal events (e. g. , first day of school, last college exam), some verified for accuracy against school records etc: *superior autobiographical memory, new explicit memory. *no consistent advantage on visual or verbal test: *no significant advantage in short term memory. *london taxi drivers had larger posterior hippocampi, and smaller anterior hippocampi (correlated with experience: distributional change of the hippocampi, may also be experience of driving that changes the cortical region. It sits next to the parahippocampal cortex (that lights up when you see places); links with navigation: conclusions: exceptional memory, general memory experts use mnemonic techniques (e. g. , method of loci, chunking, etc.
