 Quote by atyy
That's an interesting thought.
In a review Turner and Desmurget propose the basal ganglia are involved in acquisition, but not long term storage - which sounds to me like basal ganglia are to procedural memories what the hippocampi are for declarative ones. So maybe there isn't any conflict with what Myers et al are saying? |
Another thread I responded to reminded me of this thread:
http://physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=657465
Now that I'm done with my thesis, I have an opportunity to look at some of these papers. The review casts doubt on the basal ganglia as storage and suggests the motor cortex. In the context of the thread above, I wonder what that means for reptiles, who have a very tiny homolog to the motor cortex. Or I guess, more importantly, what it means from humans. Does our greater complexity come from simply having larger (and presumably more specialized) memory banks, and not so much the way we process information on the fly?
But this also seems to be exclusive to motor tasks. What about, say, "procedural thinking" tasks?
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