Exam 13: The Biology of Learning and Memory

H. M. had particularly severe impairment of episodic memories, or memories of single events.

A person with damage to their cerebellum may experience several problems, including:

Which of the following would most likely interfere with sensitization in the Aplysia?

Habituation and sensitization differ depending upon whether:

One would most accurately describe H.M.'s memory problems as the inability to form:

Which of the following is one of the reasons that Lashley failed at finding the engram?

Describe the some of the experiments testing the hippocampus's role in spatial memory.

A rat is placed in a radial maze in which it has already been trained for many trials. As compared to rats without damage to their hippocampus, rats with damage are more likely to:

Individuals with amnesia who play video games such as Tetris:

In Aplysia, sensitization has been found to depend on a series of events that:

In studies with mice, the antioxidant curcumin reduced:

A distinctive symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome is confabulation, in which patients guess to fill in memory gaps.

Describe the brain pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

Restlessness, depression, hallucinations and loss of appetite all accompany:

When Penfield stimulated the temporal cortex of alert and awake brain surgery patients, he found that they:

The most enduring forms of LTP depend on changes in the:

Lashley was able to determine that the frontal lobe cortex is more important for memories than the parietal lobe cortex.

Retrograde transmitters:

The most likely cause of the brain damage typical of Alzheimer's disease is due to a:

In the Morris search task, a rat with hippocampal damage will: