Learning in Multiple Memory Stores

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Learning in Multiple Memory Stores

• M Meeter
• m_at_meeter.nl
• Dept. Cognitive Psychology
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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A neuropsychologists memory (10 years ago)
neocortex semantic memory
hippocampal region episodic memory
cerrebellum classical conditioning
basal ganglia instrumental conditioning
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A neuropsychologists memory
neocortex semantic memory
hippocampus recollection parahippocampus familiari
ty
hippocampal region episodic memory
cerrebellum classical conditioning
basal ganglia instrumental conditioning
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A modelers memory
neocortex
hippocampus parahippocampus
hippocampal region episodic memory
cerrebellum
basal ganglia
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Hierarchy
Neocortex stimuli
Meeter, Myers Gluck (2005). Psych Rev
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Familiarity neurons
parahippocampus entorhinal perirhinal cortex
Xiang Brown (1998). Neuropharmacol
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Why memory?
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What memory is for
Cerebellum classical conditioning
Meeter, Myers Gluck (2005). Psych Rev
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Context change
huh ?
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Early in learning
Cerebellum eyeblink conditioning
Meeter et al. (2005). Psych Rev
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Early in learning
Cerebellum eyeblink conditioning
Meeter et al. (2005). Psych Rev
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Latent inhibition
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Latent inhibition
Hippocampus context stimulus
Cerebellum
Parahippocampus stimuli in context
Neocortex stimuli
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Acquired equivalence
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Acq. equiv. in humans

• The Fish task

Correct!
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Stimuli fish faces
?
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The Fish task stages
Stage 1 shaping
Stage 2 equivalence training
Stage 3 new consequents
Stage 4 transfer test
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Acq. equiv. in humans
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Second task stages
Stage 1 shaping
Stage 4 transfer test
Stage 2 equivalence training
Stage 3 new consequents
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Effect on lures?
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Conclusions

• Why multiple memory stores?
• different kinds of representations
• localist vs. global
• How do we see that?
• performance on associative learning tasks
• Is that really a memory phenomenon?
• model explains data
• associative learning changes memory
  representations

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Contributors
Mark Gluck (Rutgers U.) Catherine Myers (Rutgers
U.)
Daphna Shohamy (Columbia U.)
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