Chapter 18: Learning and Memory

Question 1

infantile amnesia

Answer 1

• you have no memories from infancy and early childhood
• episodic memory system is not yet mature
• brain deletes memories to make space for new ones

Question 2

fugue state

Answer 2

• sudden and transient loss of personal history

- defect in medial-temporal-lobe memory systems

Question 3

brain in episodic memory

Answer 3

• medial temporal
• ventral PFC
• unicate fasciculus

Question 4

brain in semantic memory

Answer 4

• temporal and frontal

Question 5

Ammon’s horn

Answer 5

• gyrus of hippocampus

- pyramidal cells

Question 6

dentate gyrus

Answer 6

• gyrus of hippocampus

- stellate granule cells

Question 7

two pathways of the hippocampus

Answer 7

• perforant pathway to posterior temporal

- fimbria fornix to thalamus, PFC, basal ganglia and hypothalamus

Question 8

CA1 cells

Answer 8

• pyramidal cellss

- in subiculus in temporal

Question 9

brain in implicit learning

Answer 9

• motor cortex
• basal ganglia
• cerebellum