Hippocampus

multitasking. When a task is isolated, learned on its own, the part of the brain that is used to learn the task is the hippocampus. This shows promise because the hippocampus has the authority to oversee declarative memory, and use what was learned in new situations. On the other hand, if a task is learned while multitasking, it is all accomplished using the striatum rather than the hippocampus. Memory learned by the striatum is less adaptable to different situations and therefore your brain…

connected to the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and spinal cord to receive sensory information. The sensory…

"Implicit memory is shown when performing on a task is enabled in the absence of conscious remembrance; explicit memory is unmasked when the performance on a task requires conscious memory of previous occurrences (Graf and Schacter, 1985 in Anderson, 2015) and conveyed in typical tests of cued and free recall and recognition. Event memory loss after an injury is called anterograde amnesia which involves the extended hippocampal complex and the thalamus which helps form new memories (Salnaitis,…

Verbal memory impairments in schizophrenia associated with cortical thinning S. Guimond, M.M. Chakravarty, L. Bergeron-Gagnon, R. Patel, M. Lepage Background Our memory is a cognitive function that we most call upon. We are constantly using our memory to store numerous amounts of information, which helps us to develop our own bank of common knowledge, which we can later call upon. We tend to consider memory as a whole, when in fact the type of information we memorize and recall, actually…

Throughout our lives we watch and find enjoyment through many different films and cinemas. A lot of the time we find ourselves critiquing the movie based on many different factors such as the quality of writing, acting or actors, the film quality, or the way we are entertained by it. In many movies are disabilities and disorders we can see in psychology that are portrayed in different ways, and it is important we call attention to these movies and critique them through a scientific lens. In many…

such as the prefrontal cortex, striatum and hippocampus. The evidence found region specific responses of dopaminergic systems in these areas. Previous studies have also shown that the sensitivity and magnitude of dopamine release in these brain regions may cause alterations in behavioural responses. As a result, stress induced variations in areas that are functionally reliant on dopaminergic transmission, such as the prefrontal cortex, striatum and hippocampus, may also be responsible…

The amygdala is often called the “aggression center” of the brain. There are two of them in one’s limbic system, and they are located on either side of the thalamus, at the end of the hippocampus, a little bit in front of the brain stem. When the amygdalas are stimulated, one feels anger, violence, fear, and anxiety. When the amygdalas are completely destroyed, a person has what is called Kluver-Bucy syndrome. The effects of this syndrome include hyperorality, hypersexuality, and…

memory is the storage of events and facts (Squire, 1992). Because implicit memory is unconscious and explicit memory is conscious, there are different mechanisms and anatomical locations involved. Explicit memory is known to be centered in the hippocampus whereas implicit is located in the striatum or basal ganglia (Packard & Knowlton, 2002). The mechanism of storing and losing long-term memories has been extensively studied.…

Dougherty, etc). Heavy Marijuana users had impairments with the short term memory area in the brain (hippocampus, and subiculum); “even when the participants had abstained from smoking after six weeks” (Donald M. Dougherty, Etc). “Recall memory was poor in marijuana adults and adolescents, but evidence shows that recall deficits can recover with extended abstinence…

The hippocampus is the most important part of the brain because it is responsible for transferring information from working memory to long-term memory so it can be used again.If this area gets damaged, someone would forget everything that had happened previous the accident, but would be able to create new memories from that point on. There are many other aspects that play a role in us remember and forgetting. Two things that could cause someone to forget are interference and individual…