FUNDAMENTALS OF COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (W3480Y: SPRING 2000)

W3480Y WEEK 8: CONSOLIDATION AND RETRIEVAL FROM REMOTE MEMORY

REQUIRED READINGS
(ALL ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH COLUMBIA E-JOURNALS)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/science/sjtitle.html

1. Nadel, L., Samsonovich, A., Ryan, L., & Moscovitch, M. (2000). Multiple trace theory of human memory: Computational, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological results. Hippocampus, 10, 352-368.

2. Graham, K. S. (1999). Semantic dementia: a challenge to the multiple-trace theory? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3(3), 85-87; Moscovitch, M. (1999). Multiple-trace theory and semantic dementia: Response to K.S. Graham (1999). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3(3), 87-89.

3. Levine, B., Black, S. E., Cabeza, R., Sinden, M., McIntosh, A. R., Toth, J. P., Tulving, E., & Stuss, D. T. (1998). Brain, 121, 1951-1973.

4. Melo, B., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (1999). False recall and false recognition: An examination of the effects of selective and combined lesions to the medial temporal lobe/diencephalon and frontal lobe structures. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19(3/4/5), 343-359.

QUESTION FOR CRITICAL THINKING:

First, compare and contrast the multiple trace theory (MTT) with the standard theory (ST) of memory consolidation, referring to evidence described in the readings. Next, consider the following instances of memory of retrieval in a normal 60-year old man ("Bert") from the point of view of these two theories and the role of the frontal lobes in memory retrieval proposed by the articles above:

The moment when he kissed his new bride Rachel on their wedding day, 30 years ago.
The fact that Bush is the new president.
The day that he inadvertently punched a vote for Buchanan instead of Clinton (he lives in Palm Beach)
The day that he and his sister, Bhavana, went to the zoo when he was 5-years old (he actually went with his brother and it was the circus not the zoo).

ADDITIONAL READINGS ON CONSOLIDATION:

1. Sutherland, G. R., & McNaughton, B. (2000). Memory trace reactivation in hippocampal and neocortical neuronal ensembles. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 10, 180-186.

2. Reed, J. M., & Squire, L. R. (1998). Retrograde amnesia for facts and events: Findings from four new cases. Journal of Neuroscience, 18(10), 3943-3954.

3. McCelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological Review, 102(3), 419-457.

4. Paller, K. A. (1997). Consolidating dispersed neocortical memories: the missing link in amnesia. Memory, 5(1-2), 73-88.

5. Murre, J. M. (1999). Interaction of cortex and hippocampus in a model of amnesia and semantic dementia. Reviews in Neuroscience, 10(3-4), 267-278.

ADDITIONAL READINGS ON THE ROLE OF THE FRONTAL LOBES IN RETRIEVAL, FALSE MEMORIES AND CONFABULATION

1. Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2001) Memory Distortion. In In B. Rapp (Ed.), The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology: What Deficits Reveal About the Human Mind, Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

2. Mangels, J. A., Gershberg, F. B., Shimamura, A. P., & Knight, R. T. (1996). Impaired retrieval from remote memory in patients with frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychology, 10(1), 32-41.

3. Kroll, N. E. A., Markowitsch, H. J., Knight, R. T., & vonCrammon, D. Y. (1997). Retrieval of old memories: the temporofrontal hypothesis. Brain, 120(8), 1377-1399.

4. Dalla Barba, G. Mantovan, M. C., Ferruzza, E., & Denes, G. (1997). Remembering and knowing the past: a case study of isolated retrograde amnesia. Cortex, 33(1), 143-154.

5. Dalla Barba, G., Mantovan, M. C., Cappelletti, J. Y., & Denes, G. (1998). Temporal gradient in confabulation, Cortex, 34(3), 417-426.

6. Papagno, C., & Baddeley, A. (1997). Confabulation in a dysexecutive patient: implication for models of retrieval. Cortex, 33(4), 743-52.

7. Burgess, P. W., & McNeil, J. E. (1999). Content-specific confabulation. Cortex, 35(2), 163-82.

8. Burgess, P. W., & Shallice., T. (1996). Confabulation and the control of recollection. Memory, 4(4), 359-411.

9. Kritchevsky, M., Zouzounis, J., & Squire, L. R. (1997). Transient global amnesia and functional retrograde amnesia: contrasting examples of episodic memory loss. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 352(1362), 1747-1754.