Exam 16: Memory Systems and the Hippocampus

According to the modular view, the entorhinal cortex is on top of the hierarchy for semantic memory.

According to the modular view, the hippocampal formation is not required for semantic memory.

What is an important difference between recognition based on recollection versus recognition based on familiarity?

The delay matching to sample task requires the subject to choose the novel object.

Initial experiments by Mishkin revealed that damage to either the hippocampus or the amygdala had very little effect on delayed nonmatching to sample (DNMS) performance.

_______ memory tasks require that the subject make a judgment about whether something has previously occurred.

According to the unitary view, the hippocampal formation is required for episodic memory but not for semantic.

Animal researchers have difficult in confirming a role for the hippocampus in episodic memory because _______. (Select all that apply.)

The delay matching to sample task requires the subject to choose the previously sampled object.

What are the two important features of the DNMS task?

Scoville surgically removed the most of the hippocampus, amygdala, and surrounding cortical regions.

Henry Molaison was not the first patient to display amnesia for certain types of information. What was unique about his case?

According to the unitary view, components of the MTH system are relatively dedicated to specific functions.

An advocate of the _______ view would argue that semantic memories can be acquired even when the hippocampus is selectively removed.

One cannot have a sense of familiarity without recollection.

What is the multiple memory systems perspective?

What primary regions were surgically removed from Henry Molaison's brain?

The removal of Henry's medial temporal lobes disrupted what is called the _______ memory system.

It is likely that the monkeys with damage to the hippocampus were using recognition based on recollection to perform the DNMS.

What evidence supports the conclusion that the details that make up an episode and the emotional impact of the experience are stored in different brain regions?