PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Taxicab, Neuroplasticity, Psychopathy

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Famous amnesic patient with memory loss - couldn"t form new memories. Had surgical removal of much of his hippocampus in 1953 (age 26) To get license, taxicab drivers must memorize 25,000 streets. More years as driver > fewer years as driver. Single-unit recordings: method used to analyze the firing patters of single neurons (with rats) Rat maze task: rats run around maze, encountering different objects at different locations. "plays a central role in many emotional processes, particularly the formation of emotional memories" Placed in new context and hears tone - rat freezes. Amygdala lesioned animals show no or reduced fear conditioning. With lesions of human amygdala, people are impaired in. With lesions of human amygdala, people are impaired in recognizing emotions on faces. They also don"t show enhanced perception/memory of emotional events. People in rural areas have less of an amygdala activation during stressful circumstances. Amygdala volume is associated with the size and complexity of your social network.