1. PSYC 3832 NEURAL BASIS OF LEARNING
Week 1
Chapter 1
TIAN YU, PhD
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2. PSYC 3832 NEURAL BASIS OF LEARNING
What are you going to learn here?

3. 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.

4. Introduction: Fundamental Concepts and Historical Foundations
READ the TEXTBOOK! …

5. How does the memory work?
Some fun experiences.

6. Example #1
Studying the materials right before the exam will greatly help with the (exam) performance.

8. Memory Consolidation
Short term memory vs long term memory?
Incorrect!

9. 5
Short term memory vs long term memory?
Incorrect!

10. 8
Short term memory vs long term memory?
Incorrect!

11. 7
Short term memory vs long term memory?
Incorrect!

12. 9
Short term memory vs long term memory?
Incorrect!

13. Short term memory vs long term memory?
Incorrect!

14. 8 9 5 7
That’s the short-term memory!

15. Where did I park this morning?
Example #2
Implicit (nondeclarative) memory
Explicit (declarative) memory
Copyright 2016 Rio Olympics
Where did I park this morning?

16. 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 ( ), known in the memory science field as the “H.M.”

17. An interview of H.M. at 1992.
In 1992, that was 39 years after his brain lobotomy surgery.

18. Learning and memory are theoretical concepts, neurobiologists are motivated by the belief that they have a physical basis in the brain.

19. 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)