Psyc20006 Biological Psychology (Melbourne Uni)

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Episodic memory: Good recognition

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Information has been retained and can be accessed if retrieval mechanisms are supported

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Episodic memory: Poor recognition

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impaired retention of information, external prompts do not facilitate retrieval

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Wernickes aphasia

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structure is correct but no content words

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Brocas aphasia

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highly meaningful but syntax (grammar) is lost

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Semantic dementia

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Progressive disease, generalised impairment throughout the brain. - Bilateral degeneration of the inferlateral and anterior TLs (brain regions housing semantic mem). Relative sparing of MTL structures. -Early spread to ventromedial frontal lobes.

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Strengths of Semantic dementia

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-Normal WM (verb & noverb) -Preserved antergrade ep mem (verb & noverb) - May have poor retro ep mem. -Phonology and syntax intact. - No topographical disorientations (sont loose way in fam setting) - No visuo-spatial deficits - Intact org and planning skills

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Deficits in Semantic dementia

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Anomia (most common-intitial) unable to remember correct word for an object. Followed by impaired c=word comprehension; semantic paraphasias (chair 4 table), circumlocutions (helicopter; 'thing that spins in air'). omissions (I don't know)

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Semantic memory: category dissociation

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patients can have a loss of knowledge within a discrete category of semantic mem.

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Modality dissociation

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Intact sem in the verbal modality but impaired sem in vis mod (n vice versa)

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Ribotshaw argues for a t........ g............... in amnestic patients . That is ..........past remembered better than .........past.

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temporal, gradient, distant, recent

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MTL lesions- impairment in auto memory w/ ............. temporal gradient

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reverse

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FL lesions- impairment in ....... men without ............ ...........

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auto, temporal, gradient

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Assessment of semantic memory

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word definitions, pictures and drawings & naming words, famous faces test, category fluency (animals), colour selection, sorting words.