Information Flow

Information Heirarchy
  • Hippocampus
  • Association areas
  • Primarysensory areas
    • Hippocampus
    Hugely important for memory and recognition and translating information from short term to long term.
    Diseases
  • Parkinsons disease: lost of dopamine cells in basal ganglia. Termors, rigidity, difficulty initiating movement
  • Huntingtons disease: cell death in basal ganglia. Uncontrollable movement

    • Memory

    Declarative
    Something that can be explained; ex. facts.
  • Cortex
    • Semantic
    Ex. facts
    Episodic
    Events that you remember
    Non-declarative
    Skill learning and habits; priming
    Skill learning
    E.g. reading
  • Basal ganglia
    • Priming
    Exposure to something improves processing
  • Cortex
    • Conditioning
    Reward/punishment to influence behavior
  • Amygdala

    • Long term

  • Medial temporal lobe

    • Working Memory

    • Prefrontal cortex
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