My presentation for 1st MBBS 2017 batch

1. Learning and
Memory

2. What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember
and how you remember it.
Gabriel García Márquez

3. Memory
(1) the time course of storage
(2) the nature of the information stored.

4. Henry
Molaison

5. Explicit
• Episodic
• Semantic Implicit

6. Explicit Memory
• Encoding
• Storage
• Consolidation
• Retrieval

7. Working
Memory
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9. Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new or
modifying existing knowledge, behaviors,
skills, values, or preferences.
Memory is storing what is learnt.

10. • Classical conditioning (also known as Pavlovian
or respondent conditioning) refers to learning
procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus
(e.g. food) is paired with a previously neutral
stimulus (e.g. a bell).

11. • In operant conditioning, a
reinforcement (by reward) or instead a
punishment given after a given
behavior, change the frequency and/or
form of that behavior. Stimulus present
when the behavior/consequence
occurs come to control these behavior
modifications.

12. Thought
No clear definition or concept of how it
woks
• Depth
• Degree

13. Consciousness – an awareness

14. Memory
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16. MEMORY
TRACE
Hypothetical
permanent change
in the nervous
system brought
about by
memorizing
something

17. Habituation
Form of learning in which an
organism decreases or ceases its
responses to a stimulus after
repeated or prolonged presentations

18. What if we do not forget?

19. Facilitation
The enhancement of the
response of a neuron to a
stimulus following prior
stimulation

20. Short term
• verbal information
• visuospatial information
• executive control
processes
Long term
Intermediate Long term memory

23. CONSOLIDATION OF MEMORY

24. Errors and Imperfections
in Memory
“The Seven Sins Of Memory”
• Transience
• Absent-mindedness
• Blocking
• Misattribution
• Suggestibility
• Bias
• Persistence

25. Amnesia

26. Dementia

27. Alzheimer's disease

28. Summary