Exam 17: The Hippocampus Index and Episodic Memory

The context preexposure paradigm allows researchers to study how rodents acquire _______.

As information is carried forward to the hippocampus it becomes more _______ and integrated.

What is the evidence that rodents can acquire a representation of a context that can be activated by a subset of the features that make up the episode?

How was Brian Wiltgen's laboratory able determine that contextual fear conditioning activated neurons throughout the neocortex?

Pattern completion processes enables similar experiences to be stored as unique memories.

According to index theory, what is the role of the hippocampus during memory formation?

Where does the first level of integration occur?

The content of experiences is stored in neocortical regions.

According to index theory, what is the role of the hippocampus during memory retrieval.

Sensory information received by the unimodel associative and polymodal associative areas is not well _______.

Pattern separation processes enables similar experiences to be stored as unique memories.

The entorhinal cortex projects to two hippocampal regions. What are they?

During memory formation an index is created in the hippocampus that provides a loop back to the neocortical units that store memory.

What are the five steps through which information flows in the neural system that supports the episodic memory systems.

The context preexposure facilitation effect _______. (Select all that apply.)

Explain the hierarchical structure of the episodic memory system.

What properties of the hippocampus make pattern completion possible?

Conscious recollection means that you have an awareness of remembering.

The hippocampus provides an index for memory traces in other brain regions.

Describe pattern completion.