Chapter 9 Outline

Chapter 9 Outline

  • Introduction
  • Introductory Box Developmental Amnesia
  • Basic Concepts and Assumptions
    • A taxonomy of declarative memory
    • A simple neurological model of encoding, storage, and retrieval
    • Using the model to explain the effects of brain damage
  • The Nature of Medial Temporal Lobe Representations
    • Theories of hippocampal memory function
    • Differences between medial temporal lobe subregions
  • Box 9A Organization of the Medial Temporal Lobe Memory System
  • Cortical Regions Storing Semantic and Episodic Memory Representations
    • The organization of semantic knowledge in the cortex
    • The reactivation of cortical regions for recent episodic memories
  • Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex to Encoding and Retrieval
    • Functional neuroimaging of episodic encoding
    • Functional neuroimaging of episodic retrieval
    • Effects of frontal lobe lesions
  • Box 9B Functional Neuroimaging Methods to Study Episodic Memory
  • Contributions of the Posterior Parietal Cortex to Encoding and Retrieval
    • The role of posterior parietal cortex during retrieval
    • The role of posterior parietal cortex during encoding
  • Box 9C ERP Studies of Episodic Retrieval
  • Memory Consolidation
    • Synaptic versus system consolidation
    • Theories of system consolidation in declarative memory
    • Consolidation, reactivation, and sleep
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