What is declarative memory?
Short term memory - memory of facts and events
What is non-declarative memory?
Procedural memory (like muscle memory)
What is procedural learning?
Learning a motor response in reaction to sensory input
What is habituation?
When habit and association is learned/unlearned over time
What is sensitization?
When sudden, strong stimulus leads to increased responsiveness of behavior
What is associative learning?
Classical conditioning and instrumental learning
What is classical conditioning?
Associating an irrelevant unconditioned stimulus, with an influential conditioned stimulus
What did Donald Hebb suggest?
Suggested link between memory storage and representation of stimuli within cortex
What is cell assembly?
Reciprocally connected and distributed set of cells that create relationship between cells like perception cells and memory cells
How does the medial temporal lobe store memory>
Consolidates declarative memories by engaging cortical association areas to parahippocampal and entorhinal areas which provide input to hippocampus, which projects to prefrontal cortex
What was the case of HM?
He had medial temporal lobe removed and wasn’t able to form new memories (short term memory was in tact, most previous memories in tact, rest was not)
What does Korkoff’s syndrome do?
Excessive alcoholism can cause this condition resulting in worse intergrade amnesia than HM had
What does the hippocampus do with memory?
it 1) binds together sensory information
2) holds spatial memory of objects
3) stores memories for periods of time
What are place cells?
Locational memory engages cells in areas that coincide with the location
What are grid cells?
Idea that firing patterns (of place cells?) are organized in hexagonal fields
What is the standard model of memory consolidation?
Idea that the hippocampus stores memories temporarily before transferring them to extrahippocampal sites and are stored
What is the multiple trace model?
Idea that declarative memory is stored in both hippocampal and extrahippocampal regions
