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| bilateral medial temporal lobectomy |
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| removing medial portions of both temporal lobes |
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| an operation in which a lobe, or major part of one, is removed from the brain |
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| an operation where a lobe, or major portion, is separated by a large cut but is not removed |
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| not being able to remember afterward |
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| amnesiac information presented in all sensory modalitites |
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| tranfering short term memories into long term storage |
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| memories are expressed by improved test performance without conscious awareness |
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| explicit A)Semantic B)Episodic |
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| A)explicit memories for general facts or information B)explicit memories for particular events or ones experiences in ones life. Autobiographical memory |
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| interruption of blood supply to brain.Suffer from medial temporal lobe amnesia |
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| alcohol induced amnesia. damage to the mediodorsal nuclei. |
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| greatly reduced levels of acetylcholine. Degeneration of the basal forebrain. |
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| posttraumatic amnesia(PTA) |
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| amnesia resulting from a nonpenetrating blow to the head |
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| Most prominent theory of memory consolidation. |
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| Hebb's theory. Memories are stored in the short term by neural activity reverberating in closed circuits. |
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| Electroconvulsive shock (ECS) |
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| intense, brief, seizure inducing current that is administered to measure the disruption of neural activity |
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| each time a memory is retrieved from long term, it is temporarily held in labile(changeable) short term memory |
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| standard consolidation theory |
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| memories temporarily stored in the hippocampus until they can be transferred to a more stable cortical system. |
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| multiple-trace theory. Nadel and Moscovitch |
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| hippocampus stores them for as long as they exist. Retained memories become progressively more resisitant to disruption. Because when similar situations happen, they become engrams, or linked to them. Further solidifying |
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| a change in the brain that stores a memory |
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| Major structures of the temporal lobe` |
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| hippocampus, amygdala, and adjacent rhinal cortex |
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| 1)Entorhinal cortex 2)Perifhinal cortex |
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| 1)cortex within the rhinal fissure 2) cortext around the rhinal fissure |
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| cognitive map theory. O'Keefe and Nadel |
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| hippocampus plays a role in episodic memory because the spatial context plays a critical role in recalling memory |
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| configural association theory |
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| when signals represent one thing in a certain context but when the signal is shown in a different context, it draws on different memories |
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| plays a role for memories or experiences with emotional significance |
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| damage, can lead to ability to remember things, but not be able to relate the two. IE. the Cook who Couldnt |
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| participates in the storage of memories learned sensorimotor skills. |
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| stores the memories of the relationships between stimuli and responses. Habit forming things. |
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| most modern thinking in regard to memory began with him |
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| long term potention (LTP) |
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| is a facilitation of synaptic transmission following high-frequency electircal stimulation applied to presynaptic neurons |
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