Activating a Memory System Focuses Connectivity toward its Central Structure

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This article reveals that two separate memory systems can function independently. These two separate memory systems share all of their structures. A water cross-maze task, the spatial version was experimented, stimulus-stimulus associations, which had hippocampus dorsal lesions. The cue version in this instance is stimulus-reinforcement association; this would be hindered by a lesion of the amygdale. A new statistical procedure regarding regional correlations was evaluated for connectivity. “The connectivity was evaluated by calculating the correlations between the zif-268 immnoreativty of 22 structures composing of the hippocampus and amygdale systems.” The memory system is much higher in place learning than in the cue learning groups, relating to the hippocampus. “This demonstrates that the activation of a memory system consists in the focusing of functional connectivity toward the central structure of the system.” The statistics for this experiment point to the fact that many memory systems can indeed share the same structures, and can be independent.
With these types of scholarly online journals, they can be a bit scientific in nature. I am quite sure that a scientist in the field of the brain would be able to understand the experiment and the findings in full. This study is merely making progress into how the brain functions, new theories and revelations will come of all of the studies that are conducted.