Evolution of
Memory Systems
Part I. Foundations of memory
systems
Chapter 1.
The history of memory systems
Prevailing view
❌Historically
memory
habits
declarative
segregation from perception
H.M vs monkeys
Modern view
memory
system
representational systems
perception
motor control
selective
pressures
function
ties together
representational
systems
history
scientific
natural
when and why they came to do so?
why the structures
that compose memory systems
ended up where they are?
How did the prevailing view develop?
is wrong
“medial temporal lobe”
parts
single kind of memory
functioning
cooperatively
questions
what
when
why
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Reinforcement memory
Navigation memory
Biased-competition memory
Manual-foraging memory
Feature memory
Goal memory
Social–subjective memory
ability to move
early vertebrates
telencephalon
early mammals
neocortex
early primates
manipulate items
anthropoid primates
human
nutrients and dangers
cognitive maps
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items
metrics
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vision and olfaction
predatory foraging
quantity
knowledge
conceptual
categorical
evolution
clade
(monophyletic group)
crown group
stem group
sister group
paraphyletic group
ancestral trait
derived trait
homology
analogy
evolutionary innovations #
seems like
come in suites
gnathostomes
stem mammals
molars
endothermy
ossicles
hair
why?
extinction of alternative
combinations
exaptation
structures
adopt new functions
Part II.
Architecture of
vertebrate memory
Chapter 3
reinforcement learning mechanisms
Chapter 4
Navigation
Chapter 5
invertebrates
insects
ganglia
diverse forms of reinforcement learning
evolved independently
telencephalon
vision
and olfaction
hippocampus homologue
“cognitive map”
derived functions
endothermic life
nocturnal foraging niche
original
neocortex
include
several agranular
prefrontal areas
top-down biases
Part III.
Primat augmentations
Chapter 6.
manual-foraging memory
visually guided
movement
Chapter 7.
Features
areas
Chapter 8.
Goals
granular prefrontal areas
posterior-parietal
metrics
amounts
temporal
from familiar problems to novel ones
BG
4 cortical areas
stored information
Nonplacental mammals
sparse fossil record
Part IV.
Hominin adaptations
Chapter 10.
one’s self and others
Chapter 11.
Origins of explicit memory
Chapter 9.
relational reasoning
and
general problem solving
voluntary attention
prefrontal
top-down biased
parietal–prefrontal
temporal
relational reasoning
semantic generalizations
distances
visual and acoustic signs
voluntary memory retrieval