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Which brain region is responsible for motor learning? |
Basal ganglia |
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What is hebb rule? |
Cellular basis of learning involves strengthening of a synapse that is repeatedly active when the neuron before it fires |
Cells that fire together wire together |
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Hebbian learning/associative long term potentiation |
When a weak and strong synapse activate at the same time, strengthening the weak one |
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Is long term memory dependent on protein synthesis or short term memory? |
Long term memory is dependent on protein synthesis |
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What is long term potentiation? |
A long term increase in the excitability of a neuron to a particular input caused by repeated activity of that input |
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What is the CA3 region? |
Part of the hippocampus that receives input from the dentate gyrus and projects to field CA1 |
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What is the Dentate gyrus |
Next to hippocampus, receives info and projects to CA3 |
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What are pyramidal cells |
A category of large neurons which are pyramid shaped, |
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Where are pyramid cells found? |
in the cerebral cortex and ammon's horn of the hippocampus |
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The ___ amygdaloid nucleus is important for the expression of emotional responses to averse stimuli |
The central amygdaloid nucleus |
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Neurons within the amygdala are activated by: |
Detection of emotionally relevant stimuli |
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A human male who has a long record of assault, arson, and murder would be expected to show ___ levels of ___ in his cerebrospinal fluid |
Reduced, 5-HIAA |
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Functional imaging studies of the brain during decision-making in a gambling game suggests: |
The PFC is activated when subjects make choices that resulted in money loss |
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Damage to the orbitofrontal cortex reduces people's inhibitions and self-concern, true or false? |
True |
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The dorsal visual stream projects to ___ and is involved in ___ |
Parietal association cortex, the analysis of spatial location |
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Balint's syndrome is caused by bilateral damage to the: |
Dorsal visual system |
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True or false: the parvocellular visual system receives information from "blue" cones |
False |
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Receptors for ___ are involved in long-term potentiation |
Glutamate |
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Instrumental conditioning involves strengthening connections between: |
Circuits that detect a stimulus and motor control circuits that produce a response |
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The final step in the LTP process outlined in the chemistry of LTP involves |
Increased release of glutamate following enzymatic action of NO in the presynaptic cell |
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