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1
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Hippocampus

A
  • loading deck
  • patient HM
  • explicit memories
  • in lymbic system
  • damage=live in the moment
2
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Cerebellum

A
  • forming and storing implicit memories

- damage=developing conditioned reflexes

3
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Basal Ganglia

A
  • motor movement
  • formation of procedural memories
  • receive input from cortex
4
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Amygdala

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  • boost activity in mentoring forming area
  • emotion-processing clusters
  • sends and receives neural projections
5
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Frontal Lobe

A
  • effortful processing
  • divergent thinking
  • Broca’s area - speaking(left)
  • positive moods(left)
6
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Left lobe

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  • recalling passwords and holding them in working memory

- parietal-convergent thinking

7
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Right lobe

A

Pulling up visual scene

8
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Temporal lobe

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  • insight

- wernickers area- understanding

9
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Angular gyrus

A

Transforms visual representations into auditory codes

10
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Thalamus

A
  • transmit signals to cortex

- consciousness