Exam 14: How Do We Learn and Remember 

The frontal lobe appears to participate in:

Early research with patient H. M. demonstrated that the hippocampus:

When nerve growth factor (NGF) is given to an animal following a stroke, it is likely to:

Define drug-induced behavioral sensitization. Give an example.

H. M., the memory patient described in the textbook, underwent:

Which of the following terms is used instead of explicit memory?

What are long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD)? What procedures can be used to induce LTP or LTD?

Shown a series of photographs in a specific order, patients with _____ damage would not be able to remember the photographs or their order, and patients with _____ damage would remember the photographs but not their order.

Enhanced synaptic growth of cells in the visual cortex would:

Outline a purported neural circuit for explicit memory.

Mishkin and his colleagues have hypothesized that the _____ is (are) central to implicit memory.

Researchers asked study participants to repeat a list of random words from memory after a 1-minute wait. Participants were then asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag. While participants were performing the tasks, positron emission tomography (PET) scans of their brains were recorded. The researchers most likely found greater activation in the _____ lobes when recalling the list of words and greater activation in the _____ lobes when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mimi is able to draw upon memories of herself and report what she did. She can tell you about significant events in her life, such as her wedding, and ordinary occurrences, including what she did last week. What brain regions are thought to underlie her autobiographical memories?

Loss of cholinergic cells in the basal forebrain and development of neuritic plaques in the cerebral cortex are associated with:

Amnesics generally lose the ability to do:

Maguire and colleagues found that London taxi drivers had _____ than control subjects did.

Which of the following structures play an important role in short-term, or temporary, memory?

A rat in an enriched environment is likely to _____ than a rat in an under-resourced environment.

The patient J. K. had Parkinson disease. He showed a deficit in:

When the ovaries are removed from female rats, estrogen levels _____, leading to a _____ in spine density in the hippocampus.