PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Striatum, Grid Cell, Cognitive Map
9 May 2013
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Chapter 11: learning, memory, and amnesia- how your brain stores information. Both learning and memory are neuroplastic processes. Learning: the brain"s ability to change in response to experience. Memory: the brain"s ability to store and access the learned effects of experience. Bilateral medial temporal lobectomy: the removal of the medial portions of both temporal lobes, including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the adjacent cortex- procedure undergone by h. m. Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events or information learned before the amnesia-inducing brain injury. Anterograde amnesia: loss of memory for events occurring after the amnesia-inducing brain injury. We have both short term memory and long term memory. Digit span is the classic test for short term memory. Global amnesia: amnesia for information presented in all sensory modalities *displayed by h. m. * Digit span + 1 test: you add a number to the sequence after the subject has said it back.
