Question

Across • 3. Type of memory for events organized in time and dependent on a specific context (8 letters). • 5. AMPA receptors open this type of ion channel (6 letters). • 7. Brain region involved in the formation and retrieval of long-term memories (11 letters). • 9. A glutamate receptor that controls a calcium channel (4 letters). • 10. Doctors removed of this lobe in patient H.M. (8 letters). Down 1. Memory whose formation does not depend on the hippocampus (10 letters). 2. Type of amnesia for events that occur before the brain damage (10 letters), • 4. Abbreviation for a long-term increase in synaptic efficiency (3 letters). • 6. Part of the brain believed to be the site of storage for long-term memories (6 letters). • 8. Type of memory that last less than one minute (7 letters).

Answer 1

Across:

3.Type of memory for events organized in time and dependant on a specific context

• Episodic

5.AMPA receptors open this type of ion channel

• Ligand

7.Brain region involved in the formation and retrieval of long term memories

• Hippocampus

9.A glutamate receptor that controls a calcium channel

• NMDA

10.Doctors removed of this lobe in patient H.M

• Temporal

Down:

1.Memory whose formation does not depend on the hippocampus

• Perceptual

2.Type of amnesia for events that occur before the brain damage

• Anterograde

4.Abbreviation for a long term increase in synaptic efficiency

• LTP

6.Part of the brain believed to be the site of storage for long term memories

• Cortex

8.Type of memory that last less than one minute

• Sensory