Exam 12: Learning and Memory

"Cells that fire together wire together" is a good summary of the Hebb rule.

It appears that spatial memories are stored in the parietal lobes, while verbal memories are stored in the left frontal lobe.

Lifelong learning might make an individual resistant to the cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease. This is the basis of the ______ hypothesis, where individuals have developed a greater brain capacity from which to compensate the losses triggered by the disorder. One example for this were the Roman Catholic sisters, where individuals with a higher ______ density when young were still healthy decades later, despite having one or more APOE4 alleles.