PSYCH 212 Chapter 13: Chapter 13 Notes cont
10 Mar 2017
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Chapter 13: memory, learning, and development learning - the process of acquiring new information memory - the ability to store and retrieve that information. A still-living patient who is unable to encode new declarative memories, because of damage to the dorsomedial thalamus and the mammillary bodies dorsomedial thalamus - a iambic system structure that is connected to the hippocampus. Korsakoff"s syndrome - a memory disorder caused by thiamine de ciency, that is generally associated with chronic alcoholism confabulate - to ll a gap in memory with a falsi cation often seen in korsakoff"s syndrome. Brain damage can destroy autobiographical memories while sparing general memories patient k. c. Different types of non declarative memory serve varying functions skill learning basal ganglia - a group of forebrain nuclei, including the caudate nucleus, globes pallidus and the putamen, found deep within the cerebral hemispheres.
