PS263 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Memory Span, Classical Conditioning, Neuropsychology
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Both are neuroplastic processes that deal with the same thing: the ability of the brain to change its functioning in response to experience. Learning: how experience changes the brain. Memory: how changes are stores and subsequently reactivated. A lot of our knowledge of brain structures in the processing of learning and memory has come from patients with brain-damage-produced amnesia (any pathological loss of memory) The removal of the medial portions of both temporal lobes, including most of the hippocampus, amygdala, and adjacent cortex: lobectomy: Operation where a lobe or a major part of one is removed from the brain: lobotomy: Operation where a lobe or a major part of one is separated from the rest of the brain by a large cut, but it not removed. H. m"s seizures were heavily reduced, his i. q increased, but was the last patient to receive a. Bilateral medial temporal lobe lobectomy because of amnesic effects.
