Exam 11: Learning, Memory, and Amnesia

One major difference between the amnesia associated with advanced Korsakoff's syndrome and that associated with bilateral medial temporal lobe damage is that patients with advanced Korsakoff's syndrome have

Research has consistently shown that memory consolidation consistently takes about

Why do we have two memory systems-explicit and implicit-that are both capable of learning the same material? What advantage is there in having a second,conscious system? Recent evidence suggests that the answer is

It is difficult to differentiate between anterograde and retrograde amnesia in Korsakoff patients because

The tests commonly used to assess implicit memory in neuropsychological patients are

Illustrated here is the time course of events occurring before and after

Approximately what proportion of healthy people experience infantile amnesia?

R.B.had obvious damage to the __________ subfield of the pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.

R.B.'s amnesia was similar to

Grid cells,head direction cells,and border cells are located in the

Hippocampal cells that become active only when the subject is in particular locations are called

Food-caching species of birds tend to have __________ hippocampi than non-food-caching species.

In addition to the memory deficits commonly observed in medial temporal lobe amnesics,predementia Alzheimer's patients commonly experience deficits in

The human medial temporal lobe includes the hippocampus,the __________,and the medial temporal cortex.

Hippocampal neurons have been implicated in

Long-term potentiation

With respect to the study of amnesia,R.B.is to the pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus as

Which of the following medial diencephalic structures are commonly damaged in Korsakoff patients?

The long-term progressive increase in the resistance of memories to disruption by electroconvulsive shock was demonstrated in a classic study by Squire,Slater,and Chace (1975)in which the memory for __________ was assessed.

The __________ glutamate receptor appears to play a critical role in LTP at some synapses in the brain.