Declarative memory

Preface In the movie Memento, the viewer is faced with a number of questions about memory and the influences it has on a person’s satisfaction in life, their personality and brain function. These questions are especially relevant to the protagonist, Leonard Shelby who has Anterograde amnesia after damage to the hippocampus. The director, Christopher Nolan, accurately portrays the influences of hippocampal damage, similarly seen in Henry Molasis (H.M) Biological Biologically speaking,…

This film investigates the behaviours of someone with brain damage who suffers memory loss. On her father's birthday, Lucy and her father were involved in a serious car crash. This left her with anterograde amnesia and leads her to believe that it is October the 13th every day. Lucy ends up watching a video of her life every morning to fill her in on the details she cannot remember, allowing her to live life. Memory is commonly described as a group of related and interacting processes that…

long term memory What is long term memory and how it is important? Long term memory is known as the continuous process of storing conscious and unconscious information in your brain. The existence of long term memory can’t be proved physically but it can be in a scientific way. We are not aware of it when we are collecting information and adding it in our long term memory. The duration of how long this memory lasts can vary from a few days to decades. The creation of long term memory actually…

According to Feldman memory is the process by which we encode, store and retrieve information. In recognizing that memory takes in these gives us a better understanding why I remember the name of my pet at 4 years old and why I cannot remember where I put my reading glasses at 55 years old. Another definition comes into play is encoding which is the first stage in remembering something. Next stage is storage which is information stored for future use and final stage is retrieval which is the…

and memory, specifically the effects that sleep has on memory. Throughout every article the research shows that sleep is found to improve memory. However, the question is what kind of memory is supported by sleep and what type of sleep is best for improving memory. In the articles, research studies show the effects and ask what type of sleep is best for memory, and what memory is most positively influenced. The conclusion is that as sleep progresses into slow wave sleep, the outcome on memory is…

human mind. One of the key human functions that are run by the brain is the memory process. The human memory was one thought to work as simply as a filing system. Taking memories and storing them in a particular compartment of the brain. However scientists soon found out that the memory process is much more complex and involves several parts of the brain. A memory is not just a thought but rather it could mean the memory of doing something. In such a case the brain has to…

1. I believe its anterograde amnesia because john can remember his long-term memories that he had before the stroke, but can’t recall he short term memories, like he’s grandson who was born after his stroke. Anterograde amnesia, also known as fixation amnesia, is the loss of the ability to create new memories, leading to a reduced or complete failure to recall the recent past, even though long-term memories from before the incident, which caused the amnesia remain intact. Patients may therefore…

experiencing retrograde or anterograde amnesia. It appears that john is most likely subject to anterograde amnesia as he shows signs of losing his ability to form declarative memories. “Anterograde amnesia is the inability to recall events that occur after the onset of amnesia.” (Peter Harris, 2014). (pg. 105). “Retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory for events occurring before a particular time in a person’s life, usually before the event that precipitated the amnesia.” (Peter Harris,…

to get a better understanding of memory, in this case specifically through studying amnesic patients, including the well-known patient, Henry Molaison. They characterized amnesia as a selective deficit in memory, and further into the future, researchers have come to understand the functional organization of the medial temporal memory system and the functioning of its cognitive processes. The article indicates that H.M. brought about five main findings: that memory is a “distinct psychological…

Our memory is amazing, it is our ability to save, recall and utilize the information we observe with our senses. The information either stored or forgotten, depends on the meaning it 's given, the type, and the associations we make with this information. Different types of information create different memories with different purposes. The very popular explanation of the process that sense information undergoes to become a memory is called the "Three-Step Approach". This approach describes the…