BEP 220 Chapter 7.2 Neural Correlates of Long-Term Memory

Patient HM

A patient who, because of damage to medial temporal lobe structures, was unable to encode new declarative memories. Upon his death we learned his name was Henry Molaison.

Patient EP

Damage to Bilateral medial temporal lobe resulting in anterograde amnesia and the inability to form episodic memories.

semantic

Damage to the hippocampus would result in impairments to what type of memory

subsequent memory paradigm

ERPs are recorded when a participant is studying a list of materials and trials are sorted as a function of whether they go on to be remembered or not in the test phase.

Representational Similarity Analysis

Used to identify what networks of semantic information may look like. More correlation within a stimulus means better memory of the stimulus.

Hippocampus and perirhinal cortex

What brain structures are important in remembering something seen only once

Bilateral hippocampus, and medial temporal lobe

What brain structures are related to Anterograde amnesia

storage of declarative memories

What is the most widely studied role of the hippocampus.

Semantic

What type of memory is related to the temporal lobes

new declarative, especially episodic

What types of memories are affected in anterograde amnesia

entorhinal cortex

an area of the medial temporal cortex that is a major source of neural signals to the hippocampus

anterograde amnesia

an inability to form new memories

retrograde amnesia

an inability to retrieve information from one's past

Source monitoring errors

what is related to frontal cortex damage in memory