Cerebellum and Source Memory

Cerebellum and source memory.

We report the case of a 40-year-old right-handed German-speaking man who presented with ischemic stroke in the territories of the right superior cerebellar artery and posterior inferior cerebellar artery. The objective of the present study was to investigate the consequences of this cerebellar damage with regard to higher cognitive functions. On admission to the stroke unit, the patient present...

The cerebellum and memory storage.

The cerebellum, LTD, and memory: alternative views.

I n t r o d u c t i o n The idea that cerebellum stores motor memories has become so commonplace in the scientific literature that it is often presented uncritically as a fact. Even many of today's medical school textbooks state that motor memories are localized in the cerebellum and that the subcellular substrates of these memories have been identified in that structure. Such prospects, if tru...

Multiple Memory Mechanisms in the Cerebellum?

Long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) are arguably two of the most widely discussed cellular plasticity mechanisms for learning and memory. However, the extent to which they are required for behavioral plasticity and learning is not clear. In this issue of Neuron, Boyden et al. use mice lacking CaMKIV and Hansel et al. use mice lacking alphaCaMKII to assess the contributio...

Memory for actions: enactment and source memory.

Enacting simple action phrases enhances item memory but may not enhance other aspects of memory. The present experiment examines the effects of enactment on source memory. During the study phase, participants performed some actions (subject-performed tasks, SPTs) and observed the experimenter perform other actions (experimenter-performed tasks, EPTs). One group performed the SPTs with eyes clos...