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Kim, Eun Joo; Pellman, Blake; Kim, Jeansok J. – Learning & Memory, 2015
Uncontrollable stress has been recognized to influence the hippocampus at various levels of analysis. Behaviorally, human and animal studies have found that stress generally impairs various hippocampal-dependent memory tasks. Neurally, animal studies have revealed that stress alters ensuing synaptic plasticity and firing properties of hippocampal…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Animals, Memory
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Teyler, Timothy J.; Fountain, Stephen B. – Child Development, 1987
Data suggesting that different brain circuits may underlie different forms of learning and memory are reviewed. Several current theories of learning and memory with respect to hippocampal and other brain circuit involvement are considered. (PCB)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Sciences, Biological Sciences, Learning Theories
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Wickelgren, Wayne A. – Psychological Review, 1979
The relationship between current information processing and prior associative theories of human and animal learning, memory, and amnesia are discussed. The paper focuses on the two components of the amnesic syndrome, retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. A neural theory of chunking and consolidation is proposed. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes