Learning and Memory

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Memory systems

Declarative memory: Dependent on medial temporal lobe, hippocampus

* semantic memory (facts)

- everything learned in your lifetime

* episodic memory (events)

-all different types of memory are dependent on different parts of the brain

"Hollywood" amnesia: dramaticized

* Profound forgetfulnessRegardless of modality of information (names, faces places, odors and music all forgotten)

Regardless of how information is presented (visual, auditory, olfactory)

*Amnesic syndrome: set of basis clinical features

impaired declarative but spared nondeclarative

Damage to the hippocampus:

*Anterograde Amnesia

- cannot form new memories

*retrograde amnesia

-*normal memory

- remain intact

* problem with consolidation of memories

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