Exam 12: Learning and Memory

Which pathway below connects the ventral tegmental area with the hippocampus and limbic cortex?

Dopamine acts to facilitate instrumental conditioning by

Memory for events and facts that we can think and talk about is referred to as

Instrumental conditioning involves strengthening connections between

In which test condition below would you expect a memory deficit in a rat with hippocampal damage?

One striking aspect of H.M.'s memory deficit is that he

Which of the following is a strong candidate to act as a retrograde messenger from the dendrite to the terminal button?

Long-term potentiation is associated with the movement of ________ to the ________.

Damage to which of the following brain areas disrupts spatial learning?

The primary function of perceptual learning is to

Which of the following is a current explanation of the role of the hippocampus in memory?

Stimulus-response learning involves the ability to

We would expect that ________ would block the induction of LTP in the hippocampus.

An action potential that occurs in a dendritic branch after an action potential in a pyramidal cell is termed

Describe learning tasks that assess the capacity for perceptual learning,motor learning,and stimulus-response learning.

The increase in synaptic strength that occurs in long-term potentiation is due to a physical modification of the synapse to include

According to the Hebb rule,learning is associated with changes in synaptic strength caused by repeated postsynaptic activity.

Describe the role of dopamine in reinforcing brain stimulation.

Two forms of perceptual learning are classical conditioning and instrumental conditioning.

The ability to recognize a series of photos that you looked at a month ago is an example of