Brain & Behavior
An Introduction to Biological Psychology
Fourth Edition
SAGE Journal Articles
Questions that apply to this article:
- What working memory skills were assessed in this study?
- How effective was the working memory intervention?
- Do you think that this intervention could or should be generalized to all college students? Would you take advantage of it if it were available?
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Questions that apply to this article:
- What is the Morris Water Maze task and how is it used to test learning and memory in rats?
- What was the effect of nicotine on the learning and memory abilities of the rats in this study?
- What implications does this study have for understanding human learning and memory?
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Questions that apply to this article:
- How are the left and right hippocampi different?
- Why are optogenetics and chemogenetics important for understanding the functioning of the nervous system?
- How might the findings that the left and right hippocampus are different inform studies of human conditions, such as Alzheimer’s Disease?
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Questions that apply to this article:
- How does reconsolidation affect memory?
- What were the methods used to test memory in this study?
- Why did the methods of the three experiments differ? What did this enable the researchers to learn about memory?