Question 1

The __________ is thought to play a role in the storage of the emotional significance of various experiences.

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Question 2

R.B. had obvious damage to the __________ subfield of the pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.

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Question 3

The __________ glutamate receptor appears to play a critical role in LTP at some synapses in the brain.

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Question 4

The rhinal cortex (perirhinal cortex + entorhinal cortex) is an area of medial ___________ cortex.

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Question 5

Damage to the __________ nuclei of the thalamus is currently thought to account for many of the memory problems experienced by patients with Korsakoff's syndrome.

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Question 6

Posttraumatic amnesia for events that occur in the period after a concussive blow to the head is called __________ amnesia.

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Question 7

Medial temporal lobe epileptics often have good explicit long-term memories for __________ information.

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Question 8

The radial arm maze can be used to study both reference memory and __________ memory.

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Question 9

Approximately __________% of people experience infantile amnesia.

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Question 10

The human medial temporal lobe includes the hippocampus, the __________, and the medial temporal cortex.

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Question 11

The major source of the brain's acetylcholine is often degenerated in Alzheimer's patients. This area is the __________.

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Question 12

NMDA receptors respond to the __________ neurotransmitter.

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Question 13

Neurons in the medial temporal lobes of humans respond only to particular people or objects. These neurons are called ____________ neurons.

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Question 14

The delayed nonmatching-to-sample test is a good measure of __________ long-term object-recognition memory in both rats and monkeys.

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Question 15

According to one hypothesis, each time a memory is retrieved from long-term storage, it is temporarily susceptible to posttraumatic amnesia and then is strengthened again. This "restrengthening" process has been termed __________.

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Question 16

Many __________ cells are located in hippocampus, whereas many grid cells are located in the entorhinal cortex.

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Question 17

There is substantial evidence that the__________ plays a major role memory for spatial location.

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Question 18

The __________ is thought to play a role in working memory and memory for temporal order.

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