Eidetic memory

Chapter IV Prey Sensitization, Learning and Memory in Reduviids: Implications in Biological Control 4.1. Introduction Sensitization is an increasing response to a stimulus presented repeatedly while habituation denotes a failure of response to the stimulus (Staddon, 1988). The process of sensitization has enormous adaptive value. When a prey escapes from the clutches of a predator as a result of exhibiting a response, it gets sensitized. If and when a second attempt at capture is initiated by…

experience in completing the exercise. How do you think learning, intelligence, language, and memory are connected to any ease or difficulty you may have experienced while doing the exercise? While I was doing the exercise, I found out that learning intelligence, language, and memory are connected in the process of acquiring knowledge. I have noted that knowledge is building of experience in which memory has significant role to build an ease relationship between intelligence and language. 2)…

as accurate as it was once thought to be. In fact, Science magazine reports that eyewitness testimony was the basis for approximately 75 percent of wrongful convictions for murder and rape. It is a common misconception that the human mind recalls memories like a video recorder replaying recorded events. Rather, remembering events is more like putting the pieces of a puzzle together, according…

Pupil dilation What do multiplication problems and a picture of a dead body have in common? Each sight will induce slight and irreversible expansion of the pupils within our eyes. This gives observers a subtle yet obvious signal about our thoughts and feelings. After much research into why our pupils dilate, scientists have known our pupils respond to more than mere changes in the light and also display our mental and emotional changes within. In fact, our pupil dilation correlates with arousal…

Often overlooked, are the stories that follow the story of a mental hero’s journey, one that involves obstacles challenging to the mind. Glimmer, a realistic fiction novel, tells the story of Elyse and Marshall as they attempt to recover their lost memories and save their town from an evil occultist. The 347 page novel by Phoebe Kitanidis follows the pattern of the hero’s journey in both a mental and physical form as multiple events in the story match the steps in the hero’s journey. One of the…

the illustrations fading every day, no longer the color they were. On page 5, I can still notice the cheesy, Cheetos fingerprint, even though my mother always told me to wash my hands after I finished eating, and before reading. Not only did I have memories with your book, I had journeys. Every time I listened to the book or as I mumbled, and stuttered, trying each word until I was old enough to fluently read this child’s book. Journeys flooding into my imagination as each word was spoken, or as…

Hebbian theory is a neuroscientific theory on learning and synaptic plasticity. Hebbian learning relates to mirror neurons, as it provides a possible theory as to the emergence of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are neurons, which fire both when the individual themselves in performing an action, as well as when they view others performing the same action. Evidence of mirror neurons was first discovered by Di Pellegrino, Fadiga, Fogassi, Gallese, and Rizzolatti (1992) in a study of macaque…

In the teachings of Hinduism reincarnation is widely accepted as the process of a dead body’s soul entering into a newborn body and starting a new life. The Bhagavad Gita proclaims, “Just as the soul acquires a childhood body, a youth body, and an old age body during this life; similarly, the soul acquires another body after death…” (The Bhagavad-Gita, 2.13) and also “Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity or the individual soul acquires…

decaying information occurs once the information is in short term memory if not attended to; this is known as a Late Selection Model (LSM). This slight variation in models leads to very different ideas as to the nature of short-term memory. ESM believe that short term memory is a small store that can only hold Miller’s 7+/-2 capacity and attention is the process to filter the information. However LSM belief that short term memory is much larger but still only has the same resources so stimulus…

Everyone has their unique ways of learning something from start to finish. Often times we take for-granted our abilities to successfully teach a task or technique to ourselves not to mention others. Once we find that drive or that spark we can put forth the effort to teach us something that we have never learned before. Its all about the ideas behind what actually goes into learning something new. In an effort to gain a better understanding of how we learn I have thought of a learning goal,…