Memory and Learning

Question 1

Names, representation theory

Answer 1

Churchland and Sejnovski

Question 2

What are representations?

Answer 2

Patterns of activation between neurons

Question 3

What determines the storage of these representations?

Answer 3

The weight of the connections: the strength of the connections between neurons.

Question 4

Which kinds of memory are not affected in amnesiac patients?

Answer 4

Procedural (How to brush your teeth)

Question 5

Stages of memory creation and parts of the brain involved

Answer 5

1. Encoding phase - sensory cortexes and Hippocampus (hippojournalist)
2. Storage phase - sensory cortexes have the data appropriate to their senses, but it’s the hippo that can take the data and put it together (hippolibrarian)
3. Retrieval phase - Hippoindex
   (4) . Remote memories: No need for hippoindex anymore!

Question 6

role of the hippo

Answer 6

hippojournalist,
hippoindex(hippolibrarian)
hippomap