Exam 14: How Do We Learn and Remember 

The _____ receives input from the ventral visual stream and plays a role in object memory.

Monkeys with perirhinal lesions are impaired at _____, and monkeys with hippocampal lesions are impaired at _____.

Across simple and complex animals:

New synapses correspond to:

Andrew is addicted to cocaine and takes it regularly. His drug use is likely to result in:

Research by Scheibel and colleagues found that dendritic branching increased in _____ in people with high levels of education.

Consolidation is:

Last week Jack kissed a girl for the first time. The _____ subdivision of the amygdala was critical in forming Jack's memory of that kiss.

If rats are given cocaine for 2 weeks prior to being placed in a complex environment, there is:

A patient who sustained a brain injury in a mountain biking accident has a peculiar memory deficit. He has normal working memory and good long-term memory. However, he is completely unable to remember any personal events in his life, such as his college graduation or his birthday party from less than a week ago. You suspect that he may have damage to his:

One of your friends routinely uses "study pills" (Ritalin) to help him stay awake and pull all-nighters during exam time. Normally, if he takes a small dose, he is fine, but lately when he takes the same dose, he gets extremely agitated and cannot sit still. The same dose is having a larger effect on him than it used to. This is an example of:

Explicit memory relies mainly on _____ processes, and implicit memory relies mainly on _____ processes.

As opposed to viewing dyslexia as being the result of an auditory processing deficit only, in the past decade, researchers have begun to view the cause as being:

The three cortical regions, in addition to the hippocampus and amygdala, that take part in explicit memory are the:

Fear conditioning is controlled by the _____, and Pavlovian conditioning is mediated by the _____.

Emotional memory is the:

What is true of prenatal effects on brain plasticity?

Richard's left arm was amputated 3 years ago after a workplace injury. Even though the limb is gone, Richard sometimes feels like he still has a left arm. In addition, when Richard shaves the left side of his face, it feels as though someone is touching his missing left arm. What mechanisms explain this strange phenomenon?

Long-term potentiation (LTP) involves repeated _____ electrical stimulation that results in a _____ in synaptic effectiveness.

Which of the following is an example of explicit learning?