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Cerebellum

Motor movement, “little Brain”

Pre-Frontal Cortex

•Cortex= bark


•executive functioning


Ex) personality

Hippocampus

•Memory


•medial lobe

Hypothalamus

Feeding,flight,fight, arousal

Amygdala

Emotions


Fear, rage, almond shape, hangs off of hippocampus, emotional memory

Amygdala

Emotions


Fear, rage, almond shape, hangs off of hippocampus, emotional memory

Types of memory

I’m

H.M. (Henry Molaison)

•epileptic


•his temporal lobe was removed in 1953


•His seizures were dramatically reduced but so was his long-term memory


•Mild retrograde amnesia and severe anterograde amnesia


*he taught us that memory rests in the medial lobe also long term and short term memory rest in different areas

Recall V.S. Recognition

Recall-find info from your brain


Recognition- remember info from choices laid (easier method)