Memory systems and executive functions
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Memory and attention are strongly intertwined
Desimone's study of V4* neurons
Brown-Peterson task
Typical results of the Brown-Peterson task
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The correct answers were
The presented words were:
Typical memory recall curve
Atkinson and Shiffrin model (1968)
This model had some limitations
Working memory model by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch (1974)
Larry Squire's memory taxonomy
Forgetting
Amnesia
We will focus on some important characteristics
Trace-Link model: structure
System 1: Trace system
System 2: Link system
System 3: Modulatory system
Stages in episodic learning
Retrograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Semantic dementia
Neuropsychology of semantic dementia
Semantic dementia in TraceLink
No consolidation in semantic dementia
Executive functions
The elusive frontal cortex
Brodmann's map
Anatomy of prefrontal cortex
Goldman-Rakic studies of Piaget's A`B Paradigm
Similarities with `prefrontal' patients
There is also a working memory aspect to the task
Posner and Raichle's model
Next week...
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