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H.M. had his ______________ temporal lobes removed.
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medial
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The mirror-drawing test, the rotary pursuit test, the incomplete-pictures test, and the repetition priming test are all test of ____________ memory.
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Implicit
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H.M. appears incapable of forming new long-term ___________ memories.
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Explicit
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Support for the view that hippocampal damage can by itself cause amnesia comes from the study or R.B., who suffered ____________ damage to the pyramidal cells of his CA1 hippocampal subfield.
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Ischemia
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The current view is that damage to the diencephalon ______________ is responsible for most of the memory deficits of people with Korsakoff's syndrome.
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Medial
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The gradual onset of Korsakoff's syndrome complicates the study of the resulting _____________ amnesia.
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Retrograde
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The _____________ nuclei are the medial diencephalic nuclei that have been most frequently implicated in memory.
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Mediodorsal
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Alzheimer's disease is associated with degeneration of ___________ neurons in the basal forebrain.
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Cholinergic
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Posttraumatic amnesia can be induced with _____________ shock, which is used in the treatment of depression.
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Electroconvulsive
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The transfer of memory from short-term storage to long-term storage is termed _____________.
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Consolidation
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Because some gradients of retrograde amnesia are extremely long, it is unlikely that memory consolidation is mediated by ___________ neural activity, as hypothesized by Hebb.
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Reverberating
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The changes in the brain that store memories are called ____________.
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Engrams
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