Explicit memory :) [done]

What is explicit memory? And give examples

The conscious, intentional recollection of facts and events, requiring an active effort to recall info

• events (first day of college)

• Facts (capital of France)

• Items on shopping list

• Birthdays

What brain area is involve in short-term explicit memory? What evidence supports this

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

• damage to this area is associated with poor performance on the Wisconsin card sorting task (new rules)

• Brain imaging during this task shows that this brain area is more active

Who is H.M and what did we learn about memory through him?

• He suffered an accident as a child leaving him with seizures.

• A doctor removed a portion of his temporal lobe containing his hippocampus, entrohinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, and parahippocampal cortex.

• This region is critical to explicit memory, he still had a could form new implicit memores, but had mild retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia.

What was learned from non-human primate studies using the DNMTS

• The perirhinal and entorhinal cortices are required for recognizing objects -damage to the hippocampus and amygdala did not impair the animal’s abilities to find the food reward.

What is the role of the hippocampus in learning and memory?

Integrating information about the relationship between objects across time and space.