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Chapter 17: The Hippocampus Index and Episodic Memory
Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 1
1. Conscious recollection means that you have an awareness of remembering.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 2
2. Conscious recollection requires intentional initiation of a search to access our episodic memory system.
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3. Our episodic memory system can only be accessed if we intentionally initiate a search.
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4. The episodic memory system must be critically involved in both the storage and retrieval of contextual information.
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5. The hippocampus only automatically stores information that pertains to the task at hand.
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6. The hippocampus automatically captures information including unintentional, incidental information.
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7. Sensory information at the neocortex level is well integrated and not abstract.
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8. Sensory information is most abstract and fully integrated at the hippocampus level.
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9. Information from the perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices is projected to the hippocampus.
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10. Information from the perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices is projected to the entorhinal cortex.
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11. The subiculum is a part of the medial temporal hippocampal system.
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12. The subiculum is the output region of the medial temporal hippocampal system.
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13. Pattern completion supported by the hippocampus is only possible because of the return loop in the organization of the neural systems.
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14. Pattern completion processes enables similar experiences to be stored as unique memories.
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15. Pattern separation processes enables similar experiences to be stored as unique memories.
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16. The hippocampus stores the content of experiences.
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17. The content of experiences is stored in neocortical regions.
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18. The hippocampus provides an index for memory traces in other brain regions.
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19. Rodents can acquire a representation of a context that can be activated by a subset of the features that make up the episode.
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20. The activation of the entire memory by a subset of the original experience is called pattern separation.
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21. The activation of the entire memory by a subset of the original experience is called pattern completion.
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22. During memory formation an index is created in the hippocampus that provides a loop back to the neocortical units that store memory.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 23
23. In the context preexposure experiment animals spent more time freezing in the context where they were shocked than they did in the preexposed context.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 24
24. In the context preexposure experiment animals spent more time freezing in the context where they were preexposed than they did in context where they were shocked.
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25. A false context fear memory was created by using optogenetic stimulation to activate indexing neurons at the time of retrieval.
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26. A false context fear memory was created by using optogenetic stimulation to activate indexing neurons to a previously experienced context at the time of the shock.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 27
27. What are the important properties of the episodic memory system?
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28. What are the five steps through which information flows in the neural system that supports the episodic memory systems.
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29. Name the structures through which information flows into and out of the hippocampus.
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30. What is the relationship between the hippocampus, learning goals, episodic memory system, automatic capture, and incidental information?
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31. Provide examples of how episodes with overlapping information are somehow protected from interference by the episodic memory system.
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32. Explain the hierarchical structure of the episodic memory system.
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33. Why is the neural circuit that supports episodic memory described as having a loop-like structure?
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34. Where does the first level of integration occur?
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35. Where in the neural circuit does the second level of integration take place?
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36. The entorhinal cortex projects to two hippocampal regions. What are they?
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37. Define the medial temporal hippocampal (MTH) system.
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38. According to index theory, what is the role of the hippocampus during memory formation?
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39. According to index theory, what is the role of the hippocampus during memory retrieval.
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40. In indexing theory where is the content of the memory stored?
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 41
41. Describe pattern completion.
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42. What properties of the hippocampus make pattern completion possible?
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43. Describe the function of pattern separation. What makes it possible?
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44. Identify two problems that make storing memories in the neocortex unfavorable?
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45. A normal rat will explore a familiar object presented in a different context as if it were novel, but a rat with damage to the hippocampus treats explored objects as familiar. Explain these results.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 46
46. What is the evidence that rodents can acquire a representation of a context that can be activated by a subset of the features that make up the episode?
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47. How was Brian Wiltgen’s laboratory able determine that contextual fear conditioning activated neurons throughout the neocortex?