Exam 13: The Biology of Learning and Memory

Nearly simultaneous stimulation by two or more axons produces LTP, whereas stimulation by just one produces it weakly, if at all. This is known as the property of:

Recent interpretation of Walter Penfield's brain stimulation studies suggests that brain stimulation:

Donald Hebb distinguished between two kinds of memory because he could not imagine how a single kind of brain change could be both:

Thompson identified one nucleus of the cerebellum, the ____, as essential for learning.

Korsakoff's syndrome is a disorder most often associated with damage to the:

What is sensitization as it relates to memory research?

It is believed that Hebbian synapses may be critical for:

In addition to the neurotransmitter glutamate, in order to activate the NMDA receptors, the neuron requires:

A study with London taxi drivers found that answering ____ activated their hippocampus more than answering ____.

After his surgery, H.M. had the most difficulty with:

Amyloid is to ____, as tau is to ____.

The general function of working memory is to:

Confusing a made-up answer as a memory of an actual experience is referred to as:

Describe the role of the other brain areas besides the hippocampus in memory function.

During habituation of the gill-withdrawal reflex in Aplysia, the change in the nervous system takes place at the:

Researchers proposed that all information initially entered a short-term storage, where it stayed until the brain had time to ____ it into long-term memory.

____ is an influence of recent experience on behavior, even if one does not recognize that influence.

In Pavlov's experiments he presented a sound followed by meat. Gradually the sound came to elicit salivation. The sound in this experiment would be considered the:

Short-term memory may be characterized as:

The memory for the development of motor skills is termed: