Exam 13: The Biology of Learning and Memory

At many hippocampal synapses, long-term potentiation depends on the activation of NMDA receptors, which are responsive to:

Habituation is a decrease in response to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly and accompanied by no change in other stimuli.

A disorder most often associated with damage to the dorsomedial thalamus and mamillary bodies is:

Information in short term memory is lost more easily than long term memory.

Strong stimulation anywhere on the skin of an Aplysia excites axons that release:

At many hippocampal synapses, long-term potentiation depends on the activation of which type of receptor?

According to Baddeley and Hitch, a common test of working memory is the:

CaMKII is directly activated by:

Describe the delayed matching-to-sample task.

Drugs that block NMDA synapses:

Once LTP has been established:

What is the current status of research on transfer of training through brain extracts?

If people with Down syndrome live long enough, they almost invariably develop:

Damage to the ____ impairs performance on the delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks.

There is compelling evidence for the role of the hippocampus in ____ memory.

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

The study of amnesic patients leads us to the conclusion that people have ____ kind of memory, and that memory depends on ____ of the brain.

While studying classical conditioning of the eyelid response in rabbits, investigators suppress the activity of the red nucleus. What results will occur?

H.M. was able to learn and remember:

Describe the difference between declarative and procedural memory.