Learning and Memory

Define neuroplasticity

Understand the 2 broad categories of plasticity

  • synaptic

  • structural plasticity

Patient H.M.

  • developed epilepsy at 27

  • pathology in hippocampus - neurologist

  • cut out hippocampus in his brain and some of the surrounding tissue

  • after the surgery,

    • old memories were unimpaired

    • motor learning intact

    • intelligence and vocab intact

  • BUT

    • lost the ability to form new memories

    • had to live in hospital after that

Types of Declarative Memory