Exam 17: The Hippocampus Index and Episodic Memory

In the context preexposure experiment animals spent more time freezing in the context where they were shocked than they did in the preexposed context.

Information from the perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices is projected to the hippocampus.

The hippocampus only automatically stores information that pertains to the task at hand.

Which statement(s) is/are true? (Select all that apply.)

Sensory information at the neocortex level is well integrated and not abstract.

A normal rat will explore a familiar object presented in a different context as if it were novel, but a rat with damage to the hippocampus treats explored objects as familiar. Explain these results.

The idea that a subset of the original input pattern can activate the entire original input pattern is called _______.

Sensory information is most abstract and fully integrated at the hippocampus level.

Describe the function of pattern separation. What makes it possible?

Information flows into and out of the hippocampus through the _______.

Define the medial temporal hippocampal (MTH) system.

The _______ is the output region of the MTH.