MEMORY MONITORING AND DECLARATIVE MEMORY IN MONKEYS: BEHAVIOR AND BRAIN

猴子的记忆监控和陈述性记忆：行为和大脑

• 批准号: 7958253
• 负责人: ROBERT L. HAMPTON
• 金额: $ 5.48万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7958253
• 关键词: Age-associated memory impairment; Alzheimer' s Disease; Animal Model; Attention; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Autistic Disorder; Behavior; Brain; Cognitive; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Decision Making; Funding; Grant; Human; Impaired cognition; Impulse Control Disorders; Institution; Learning; Letters; Location; Memory; Monitor; Monkeys; Persons; Primates; Process; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Source; Stroke; Structure; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; improved; response

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The human ability to consciously monitor the contents of memory has not been accessible to study in animal models. Because humans talk about memories that are accessible to monitoring, such memories are called declarative. In contrast, nondeclarative memories cannot be subjectively monitored, but are inferred from their influence on behavior. For example, a person who may not be able to verbally report the locations of the letters on a keyboard may nonetheless type accurately and rapidly without looking at the keys. Loss of declarative memory from stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and other brain insults severely impairs higher cognitive processes including learning, planning, and adaptive decision-making. Memory monitoring is also a form of metacognition. Impaired metacognition is implicated in autism, age-related cognitive decline, and attention and impulse control disorders such as ADHD. Animal models are needed to identify the specific brain structures involved in memory monitoring and declarative memory so that we can develop improved treatments for cognitive impairment in humans. We have begun testing a new squad of monkeys for this recently funded project. We used a delayed-response task and are about to add a "decline-test" response to the task that will allow for assessment of metamemory.

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