Exam 13: The Biology of Learning and Memory

Compared to young adults, aging humans with poor working memory have ____ activity in the prefrontal cortex and aging humans with intact working memory have ____ activity in the prefrontal cortex.

Which brain area is active in monkeys during a delay when they have to remember the location of a light and look there only after a several-second delay?

A possible treatment for Alzheimer's is the administration of drugs that:

Lashley found that when he removed parts of the brain:

Damage to the ____ produces symptoms similar to Korsakoff's syndrome.

The patient H.M., who had major surgery for severe epilepsy in 1953, suffered a severe difficulty in remembering events:

Researchers begin to look for clues to the genetics of Alzheimer's by investigating the chromosome related to:

Hippocampal damage impairs spatial memory.

The most common treatment for Alzheimer's disease is to give drugs that stimulate:

Pairing a weak input with a strong input enhances later responses to the weak input. This is known as the property of:

What is known to be critical for long-term potentiation?

One line of research that initially appeared promising, but has since faded, was to study learning in decapitated:

Blocking NMDA synapses has what effect, if any, on LTP?

People with Korsakoff's syndrome show:

Strong stimulation anywhere on the skin of an Aplysia excites axons that attach to receptors and:

Impaired arousal and attention in Alzheimer's patients is largely due to damage to the basal forebrain.

It is hoped that long-term potentiation (LTP) will help to explain:

Habituation of the gill withdrawal response in Aplysia depends on:

Which of these types of memory is MOST impaired by damage to the hippocampus?

Structures formed from degenerating neuronal cell bodies are called: