PSYC 3832 NEURAL BASIS OF LEARNING Week 1 Chapter 1 TIAN YU, PhD Department of Psychology College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
PSYC 3832 NEURAL BASIS OF LEARNING What are you going to learn here?
Purpose (Goals) of this Course This course will: Help you answer the question: how the brain learns and remembers? Synaptic basis of memories. Stages of memories and what MOLECULES are involved in those stages. Apply the knowledge listed above in some real-life examples, and start to understand how the neural systems work in terms of memory.
Introduction: Fundamental Concepts and Historical Foundations READ the TEXTBOOK! …
How does the memory work? Some fun experiences.
Example #1 Studying the materials right before the exam will greatly help with the (exam) performance.
Memory Consolidation Short term memory vs long term memory? Incorrect!
5 Short term memory vs long term memory? Incorrect!
8 Short term memory vs long term memory? Incorrect!
7 Short term memory vs long term memory? Incorrect!
9 Short term memory vs long term memory? Incorrect!
Short term memory vs long term memory? Incorrect!
8 9 5 7 That’s the short-term memory!
Where did I park this morning? Example #2 Implicit (nondeclarative) memory Explicit (declarative) memory Copyright 2016 Rio Olympics Where did I park this morning?
Example #3 Henry’s brain after surgery was lack of the hippocampus Bicycle accident at age of 7, brain surgery lobotomy at year 1953, when he was 27. Henry Molaison (1926-2008), known in the memory science field as the “H.M.”
An interview of H.M. at 1992. In 1992, that was 39 years after his brain lobotomy surgery.
Learning and memory are theoretical concepts, neurobiologists are motivated by the belief that they have a physical basis in the brain.
First Discussion Question: Share with us your own experience with the memory. (…maybe something you have asked yourself before, but never gotten a good answer)