Exam 9: Memory

Lesions to the hippocampus typically do not result in profound memory problems unless the lesions also encompass the amygdala.

Describe the binding of items and contexts BIC) model. Describe an experiment that supports the model.

Under the multiple trace theory, the neocortex is to semantic memory as the hippocampus is to

Your favorite cartoon character has been struck over the head and can no longer remember his name or where he lives. This is an example of

Recent neuroimaging and neuropsychological work in memory has attempted to disentangle , which seems to implicate the hippocampus and the posterior parahippocampal cortex, from , which seems to implicate the perirhinal cortex.

Which of the following would be the most difficult for the famous patient H.M. and other patients with medial temporal lobe removal?

Which of the following statements is true of the kind of amnesia demonstrated by people with bilateral hippocampal damage like patients H.M. and R.B.) or people with diencephalon injury like people with Korsakoff's syndrome)?

Herpes simplex encephalitis shares which characteristic with semantic dementia?

Which of the following best describes the flow of information in the Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968) modal model of memory?

Organizing individual bits of information into higher-order units can increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory. This strategy is called

Visual sensory memory is to as auditory sensory memory is to .

Patient H.M. is to the as patients with Korsakoff's syndrome are to the .

One of the most well-known neuropsychological case studies is the person known as patient H.M. Describe the region of the brain that was damaged in H.M. and the resulting neuropsychological deficits and dissociations for which his case is known.

is the process of acquiring new information, whereas is the trace that results from this process and can be revealed at a later time.

According to the modal model of memory, information that is currently held within short-term memory originates from

Of the following choices, damage to the is most likely to result in impairment to the visuospatial sketch pad, or visual working memory.

A 1957 study of patients who had undergone removal of the medial temporal lobe for the treatment of epilepsy suggested that

It appears that the medial temporal lobes and the diencephalon are important in consolidating explicit long-term memories but are not themselves the storage sites for this knowledge because

Design an experiment to test the standard consolidation versus multiple-trace theories of consolidation. Describe the results you would expect from each theory.

Your textbook describes several different proposed distinctions in memory, including short-term and long-term, declarative and nondeclarative, and episodic and semantic. How do these different terms interrelate? What evidence supports these distinctions?