Cognitive Neuroscience Exam 2 Review Sheet PDF

Cognitive Neuroscience Exam 2: Review Sheet Study early and often, and remember that this study-guide is just that - it is a guide. This is to aid you in your studying and you may be tested on any material covered in the lectures and your reading assignments. Know...

Cognitive Neuroscience Exam 2: Review Sheet Study early and often, and remember that this study-guide is just that - it is a guide. This is to aid you in your studying and you may be tested on any material covered in the lectures and your reading assignments. Know as much as possible about each of the topics listed below, paying attention to your lecture notes, lecture slides and book chapters. Have fun studying! Short Term and Working Memory [Text Chapter 5, Lecture: Working Memory] What is memory? Know the capacity, duration, definition, and characteristics of sensory memory, short- term memory and long-term memory. Sperling and partial report method Atkinson-Shiffrin Model’s modal memory How is working memory different from short-term memory? Baddeley’s working memory model: know the components and the different factors that influence memory performance (e.g. phonological similarity effect, word length effect, articulatory suppression) What is the role of the central executive? What are some ways of investigating working memory in monkeys and humans? What are the different neural regions involved in working memory? Long Term Memory [Text Chapters 6 & 7, Lecture: Memory Part 1 and Part 2] What is long term memory? Differences between short term memory vs. long term memory. Brain stimulation and memory: what have we learned from Penfield’s work? Different types of memory: explicit, implicit, semantic, episodic, procedural, priming, conditioning Semanticization of LTM What is the propaganda effect? Which neural structure(s) support explicit memory? Which neural structure(s) support implicit memory? Tests of implicit and explicit memory Retrograde amnesia vs anterograde amnesia Patient H.M., Clive Wearing, EP What have we learned from patients? Which functions are often spared in amnesia? Understand the three different memory processes: encoding, consolidation, retrieval Levels of processing theory Encoding specificity principle Ebbinghaus’s study Serial Position Effect, primacy and recency effects Ways to enhance encoding (eg rehearsal, generation, etc) Factors that affect encoding and retrieval Remember/Know procedure Recall vs Recognition Testing effect Synaptic consolidation Systems consolidation: standard model, multiple trace model Hebbian learning Long Term Potentiation Major neurotransmitter and receptors involved in learning and memory What are retrieval cues? How does mood and state (e.g. drunk, sober) affect memory retrieval? What are some effective strategies to boost memory retrieval? Everyday Memory and Memory Errors [Text Chapters 8, Lecture: Everyday Memory] Autobiographical Memory What is the reminiscence bump? Different explanations for the reminiscence bump Flashbulb memories Emotion and Memory Retroactive and Proactive Interference Forgetting curve Schemas and scripts: how do they influence memory Bartlett’s war of the ghosts experiment Source monitoring and source error Reconstructive nature of memories Misinformation effect, misleading questions and Loftus’s study Eyewitness memory False memories DRM paradigm Odor-evoked memory Brain areas involved in odor-evoked memory