BIBB 109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Basal Ganglia, Mammillary Body, Cerebral Cortex
22 Dec 2014
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Chapter 24 memory systems: types of memory, declarative: memory for facts and events, nondeclarative: memory for skills, habits, emotional responses, and some reflexes. Procedural: memory for skills, habits, and behaviors: working: temporary form of information storage that is limited in capacity and requires rehearsal. Transient global amnesia is a sudden, temporary episode of memory loss. Conclusion was later disproven; all cortical areas do not contribute. However, memories are distributed: hebb proposed that the internal representation of an object consists of all the cortical cells that are activated by the external stimulus. It could be widely distributed among the connections that link the. Called the group of simultaneously active neurons a cell assembly. Message about the engram cells of the assembly and perception. It could involve the same neurons that are involved in sensation: localization of declarative memories in the neocortex. It cortex is both a visual area and an area involved in memory storage.
