Exam 11: Memory Consolidation

Zola-Morgan and Squire (1990) found that monkeys with hippocampal damage performed poorest on ________.

Animals with lesioned parietal lobes tend to show graded temporal amnesia on spatial tasks.

Jim was trying to remember the phone number for his colleague at work so he repeated it until he was able to call him. Later that day when he telephoned his mother he dialed his colleague again. This misdial is referred to as a(n) __________ error.

Zubin and Barrera performed the first experimental studies confirming that ECT was not directly related to graded retrograde amnesia.

Ribot's Law was also known as the __________.

The timescales of events involved in systems-level consolidation are ________ than those of cellular fixation mechanisms

Connections between relevant cortical areas could be strengthened by _________.

The time required for consolidation generally depends on the type of information being encoded as well as other supporting information to be remembered.

Alvarez and Squires (1994) proposed a _______ explaining how the hippocampal system interacts with neocortical processors to store and consolidate memories.

In a study by Muller and Pilzecker, subjects tended to think about the training pairs during a delay between training and testing. This failure to suppress the rehearsal is called ___________.

Evidence suggests that the _________ does not seem to be involved in memory consolidation.

The hippocampus represents a series of discrete events, with some cells encoding connected stimuli and actions for highly specific events occurring in a few learning episodes and other cells encoding ________.

Hebb proposed that memories initially activated in the cerebral cortex were sustained in cell assemblies that _________.

Once a set of hierarchical organizations is established and stabilized within a model it is difficult to add new items smoothly because these changes in the network result in ______.

When we experience something that shares information with something we have had previous experience with, the hippocampus works to ________.

One technique that has been used to test retrograde amnesia is the ___________ test.

Theodore Ribot provided the first review of many cases of retrograde amnesia associated with _________.

Retrograde amnesia following medial temporal lobe damage often affects memory for personal episodes more severely than semantic memory.

During a study of inhibitory avoidance, rats were injected with stimulants after learning to avoid a shock. The stimulant seemed to _________.

In the fixation process, cAMP activates ________ which makes the receptors more sensitive to glutamate.