Exam 9: Memory

Neuroimaging work has suggested that during the retrieval of a list of studied items, the hippocampus is most active

In the Atkinson and Shiffrin modal model, information can be lost by both decay and interference at each stage.

During memory retrieval, cortical regions that were important during encoding are reactivated.

Korsakoff's syndrome is associated with alcoholism.

Hebbian learning occurs when

After suffering a severe head injury, a patient demonstrates a dense anterograde amnesia. She

Following a case of encephalitis, a person has developed lesions in his anterior temporal lobes, but his medial temporal structures are intact. Which of the following is most likely to be true of this person?

Deficits in memory as a function of brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma are known collectively as

Imagine that a new drug is discovered that acts by depleting the brain of free magnesium ions. How would this drug affect long-term potentiation LTP)?

Which of the following statements concerning types of memory in the modal model of memory is FALSE?

Describe the subsequent-memory paradigm, used by Charan Ranganath and others. Explain how it has been used with neuroimaging to understand the specific involvement of brain regions in memory.

George Miller and other investigators found that humans can hold about items in short-term memory at a time.

Barbara remembers that Madrid is the capital of Spain, but she has no idea when or where she acquired this knowledge. Her memory is accurate, but her memory is incomplete.

The component that is responsible for acoustically coding information in working memory is the

The term refers to a limited-capacity store that not only retains information over the short term maintenance) but also permits the performance of mental operations with the contents of this store manipulation).

Patient H.M. had severe retrograde amnesia.

Patients with damage to the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus typically do not have difficulty performing short-term memory tasks such as the digit span.

One finding that supports the idea that information in working memory is represented by an acoustic auditory) code rather than a semantic meaning-based) code is that when participants are given a list of words to learn and then are immediately tested for recall,

Semantic memory is a kind of declarative memory that concerns events we recall from our own lives.

Describe the phenomenon of long-term potentiation LTP). How does blocking LTP affect memory?